The vibrant collection is made from kitchen food waste and fruit peels, including dragonfruit, carrot, orange, zucchini, butterfly pea, and eggplant. Handcrafted by young single mothers through dehydrating, grinding and mixing the food waste with vegan waste-derived resin, it symbolises females as persistent, outspoken, fierce, and authentic. The group holds jewellery-making workshops for the public to promote behavioural change to reduce food waste. 

Rosewood Hong Kong worked with Ways Out Hong Kong, a brand that creates upcycled jewellery from food waste, to create a limited-edition set of upcycled wine charms, which are attached neatly to the stem of wine glasses. The charms are made with kitchen food waste—think peels from dragon fruit, carrots and oranges.

Furry Green Fresh Pet Food collects surplus vegetables from local markets and creates pet food out of them— because “our furry friends deserve to eat fresh ingredients as much as we do”, says the brand. It regularly donates its products to local shelters.

Homegrown start-up Breer, founded by Gen.T honouree Anushka Purohit, collects surplus bread from various bakeries in Hong Kong, including one of the city’s biggest bread manufacturers, Maxim’s, and brews it into craft beer. It doesn’t only work with plain old white bread, either: Breer also transforms pineapple buns into tropical-flavoured drinks. 

Read more: CEO Anushka Purohit’s Food Upcycling Start-Up Breer Makes Beer Out Of Leftover Bread

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