Fresh Select (Aust) and Nutri V: 2023 Finalist – Circular economy innovation
Fresh Select (Aust) and Nutri V is a finalist for an Industry Leader award in the Premier's Sustainability Awards 2023 – Circular economy innovation category. Nutri V turns surplus vegetables that would otherwise go to waste on farms into vegetable powders and snacks, giving food waste a second life and farmers an additional revenue stream.
The project has created a sustainable circular economy solution by converting what was waste food and food loss from production into valuable and nutritional vegetable powders that can benefit the entire supply chain. It has done this by capturing what would otherwise be dumped food waste and moving to a 100% yield model of production from an average 75% yield.
In
just the first 5 months of operation, Nutri V saw 18T of vegetables diverted
from landfill and added 150,000 serves of vegetables into the supply chain.
The
company is a collaboration between Fresh Select, a leading fresh-produce
supplier with over 60 years of Australian farming history, and Australia’s
national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO).
