Food Reborn tests appetite for agro-waste fibres
31/10/2022
The alliance was prompted after developer Food Reborn was able to successfully streamline its mechanical process for extracting fibres from waste in a scalable manner, while also improving the “completely new” technology’s carbon footprint, efficiency and transport costings versus conventional methods.
Earlier this year, the start-up created a device small and portable enough for farmworkers to extract high-quality fibres themselves in the field, thus reducing the overall need for transportation along the textile value chain.
Joining hands with Toyoshima and TSI Holdings may lead to investment down the line, an announcement said, but the partners’ cooperation at this stage is primarily geared towards testing viability and exploring the market for the technology in south-east Asia, first in Indonesia and later in Thailand and the Philippines.
Inspired by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, Food Reborn further hopes to help establish a “new” industry for farmers across Okinawa prefecture, to help revitalise the local economy.
Image: Food Reborn.
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