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The days of more than one third of Asia’s food getting lost and wasted have to be consigned to the rubbish heap of history – and fast. It is not just a humanitarian duty; it is also good business practice, as much of this waste holds huge stores of underutilized value just waiting to be unlocked. |
All through the agenda at FFA2022 it was evident that more needs to be done to reduce food waste pre-harvest, at the retail level, or in the household. However, the vast volume of food wasted either as agriculture residues or waste streams from industrial processing presents a particularly massive opportunity for valorization – and especially in Asia. |
ANPLOY WINS FUTURE FOOD ASIA AWARD 2022 |
With a focus on disruptive solutions to overcome the hurdles on this path to a more sustainable food future in Asia Pacific ANPOLY from South Korea was chosen as the winner of the 2022 Future Food Asia Award. |
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Announcing the award, Isabelle Decitre, CEO at ID Capital said “ANPOLY highlights the convergence of many fields of science and innovation to address the pressing challenge of agriculture waste. Cellulosic waste is an abundant biomass, in Asia in particular, with the importance of rice cultivation. We believe the versatile application potential of AN POLY’s advanced materials offers breakthrough solutions to many industries including food. We will be proud to support this extremely promising startup in its path to internationalization." |
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Team ANPOLY represented by Hyeri Kim and Hongseop Hwang on stage to receive the USD 100,000 Future Food Asia Award 2022 alongside jury members Ralph Graichen (A*STAR) and Francesca Kleemans (Cargill). |
ANPOLY transforms biomass waste like discarded rice hulls into a high-value and high-quality advanced material - Cellulose Nano Fiber (CNF). Medicellu®, their additive for alternate food has a wide variety of applications in the food industry as scaffolding for cultured meat as well as a binder for plant based meat. Cellustic®, their polymeric material using CNF can be used to produce biodegradable films with higher material strength and oxygen barrier, in comparison to existing biodegradable films. |
THE FUTURE OF FOOD UPCYCLING IN ASIA - KEY HIGHLIGHTS |
This White Paper investigates many of the emergent agrifood waste management technologies, ranging from automated insect waste digestion right through to energy efficient drying and storage technologies. Industrialised Asian economies like Japan, Singapore or South Korea offer strong testing beds for experimental upcycling pilot schemes with emphasis on high tech automation and an ever widening access to early stage and institutional capital. Emerging Asian economies with a greater agrarian focus like Indonesia or the Philippines offer opportunities for waste-to-energy biofuel systems, textile manufacturing from Agri residues, and functional ingredients from perishable fruits. The use of breeding, AI and computer vision is assisting in the development of a new type of livestock husbandry: that of insects. With selective breeding, these insects are capable of not only breaking down huge amounts of food waste while growing with great resource efficiency but themselves becoming useful in pharmaceutical applications, fertiliser, and even bioplastics.
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