upcycling

The term upcycling is born from the combination of two English words: upgrade (update) and recycling (recycle), and refers to creating new and higher value products from recycled materials.

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

“How can we allow food to be wasted when more than 820 million people in the world continue to go hungry every day?” What Dongyu.

DATA

Globally, more than ⅓ of the food produced is lost each year.

Food waste is responsible for 8% of the greenhouse gases produced by society.

There are many hungry people in the world.

Croplands are running out to feed the world population.

In Chile, it is estimated that 52% of fruit and vegetables go to processing in 246 industries, which would produce 4.6 million tons of waste per year from this raw material.

AND WHAT DO WE DO?

At The Imperfect Project we create high-quality products from ingredients that would otherwise go to waste.

We take Imperfect Fruits and Vegetables and create perfect solutions for you and our environment, more sustainable and socially responsible.