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((PLAYBOOK SLUG: LogOn: Food Waste Machine (TV/R)
HEADLINE: Fighting Food Waste: Technology Tells Restaurants What They Are Throwing Away
TEASER: A Dutch tech company is on a mission to eliminate food waste around the world
PUBLISHED AT: 3/29/2022 at 8:55am
BYLINE: Julie Taboh
CONTRIBUTOR: Tina Trinh
DATELINE: NY, Washington
VIDEOGRAPHER: Tina Trinh, Orbisk
PRODUCER: Julie Taboh, Adam Greenbaum
SCRIPT EDITORS: Michelle Quinn, Holly Franko
VIDEO SOURCE (S): Original VOA, Orbisk, ABC NewsOne, AP, SKYPE
PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO _X_
TRT: 1:54 & 2:00
VID APPROVED BY: MAS
TYPE: TVPKG
EDITOR: ))
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[[Up to 40% of food in the U.S. is discarded. But as VOA’s Julie Taboh reports, a company in the Netherlands has come up with technology that can help reduce food waste in industrial kitchens.]]
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((NARRATOR))
As much as 40% of food produced in the U.S. goes uneaten, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Most of it ends up in landfills, where it releases massive amounts of methane.
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((NARRATOR))
To help address this global problem, a Dutch company has developed a food waste monitoring system that uses artificial intelligence to help restaurant chefs identify and measure the amount of food being discarded in their kitchens.
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[[Radio track: Olaf ((like Olive but with an f)) van ((Vahn)) der Veen ((like Vein)) is one of three partners at Orbisk.]]
((Olaf van der Veen, Orbisk CEO))
“We outfit the waste bin with a weighing scale underneath and a camera unit on top and every time something is disposed of, we take a picture, and our AI image recognition algorithms recognize the type of food that's being thrown away.”
((NARRATOR))
The data is instantly collected and shared on a dashboard…
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…to help chefs see any recurring issues.
((Olaf van der Veen, Orbisk CEO))
“Say you waste 10 kilos of tomatoes every Tuesday morning, that's what we'll tell you. Say your salad buffet doesn't work very well on Fridays because people are more craving for comfort foods, and thus you throw away a lot of it.”
((NATS – “Bacon Cheeseburger”))
((NARRATOR))
That’s the kind of insights chefs can now access to drive down their waste, improve their sustainability – and profitability.
((NATS – Olaf: “Croissant!”))
((Olaf van der Veen, Orbisk CEO))
“There's not a chef in the world that likes to cook for the waste bin.”
[[Radio track: Vonnie Estes is vice president of innovation for the International Fresh Produce Association. She spoke with VOA via Skype.]]
((Vonnie Estes, International Fresh Produce Association)) ((Skype))
“So what their technology is able to do from a restauranteur’s point of view is really allow them, through artificial intelligence, to predict and to make the right amount of food.”
((NARRATOR))
Restaurants don’t buy the machine but pay a monthly subscription fee for the information the machine collects and shares.
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Since it launched in 2019, the service has helped about 100 restaurants in Europe save food waste … and money, the company says.
((Olaf van der Veen, Orbisk CEO))
“We’ve saved about 200,000 to 300,000 kilos to date and that has a value of about $1.2 to $1.8 million dollars so far.”
((NARRATOR))
The company plans to expand to markets in the U.S. and hopes one day to eliminate food waste altogether from industrial kitchens.
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((Julie Taboh, VOA News))
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Embargo DateMarch 29, 2022 09:46 EDT
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English
