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What’s the Problem?

168 million tonnes

of food waste is created in North America every year.

~50%

of that is generated at the household level.

30x

is how much more harmful food waste in landfills is to the environment than the CO₂ emissions from our vehicles.

1 Year

of food waste in the US = an area the size of California and New York combined.

Carbon Emissions of the FoodCycler

Kilograms of CO2e

160.6

Processing and shipping

110

Average annual energy consumption

-689.5

Annual diverted CO2 per household

-579.5

Net annual carbon footprint

770

Lifetime energy consumption

-4826.5

Lifetime diverted CO2 per household

-3868.5

Net lifetime carbon footprint

27.4

End of life

 FoodCycler carbon emmissions come from a a comprehensive life cycle assessment following ISO 14040 and 14044 standards.

Composting isn't for everyone.

Landfilling food scraps is unsustainable, and people don’t know what they can do to solve this massive food waste problem.

So we made the FoodCycler.

FoodCycler Users Make A Big Contribution

1 Based on an average of running the FoodCycler for three cycles per week.
2 Source: Food Waste GHG Calculator
3 Source: Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator

13,154,178

kilograms of food waste diverted from landfills across North America alone since 2011.1

223,300

metric tonnes of CO2 emissions avoided annually.2 (That’s the equivalent of removing more than 53,000 gas-powered vehicles off the road every year).3

1 Based on an average of running the FoodCycler for three cycles per week.
2 Source: Food Waste GHG Calculator
3 Source: Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator

At the Crossroads of Innovation and Impact. 

Did you know that decomposing food waste in landfills generates methane gas which is 30 times more harmful than C02 emissions from our vehicles?

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We’re a team of food waste experts and engineers united by the same goal: To build convenient technology that helps people tackle the global food waste problem.

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