‘The World Needs To Embrace a Suite of Solutions’: Divert on Tackling Food Waste and Climate Change
With so many issues facing the world today, it’s a rare and exciting thing to find a solution to multiple problems at the same time. One such solution came at the hands of Divert CEO Ryan Begin, who founded the company in 2007 to tackle the twin issues of food waste and the urgent need for clean energy.
Divert takes a holistic overview of the food waste crisis, and they’re involved at every stage. Firstly, they prevent waste by developing technologies to keep food fresher for longer, and work with food retailers to rescue unsold edible food and donate it to food banks. Any waste that can’t be prevented is converted to clean power at one of Divert’s facilities, through a process called anaerobic digestion.