Anushka Purohit on Reducing Food Waste by Turning Bread into Beer

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The Purpose Effect

Elena Kersey

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Imagine if all businesses were founded on purpose and built 'for good'. In The Purpose Effect, Elena Kersey gets into the weeds with women building social and environmental impact businesses about the problems they are solving and the lessons they've learned along the way. If you believe in the power of business to solve the worlds biggest problems; then this is the show for you.

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Anushka Purohit on Reducing Food Waste by Turning Bread into Beer

The Purpose Effect

35 minutes 29 seconds

2 years ago

Anushka Purohit on Reducing Food Waste by Turning Bread into Beer

One third of the food we produce globally is wasted. We are facing food shortages worldwide, but we actually produce enough calories to feed everyone on the planet. If that's not reason enough to solve the food waste problem, think about this - 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food waste. For context, the airline industry produced 2.5%

In this episode, I'm talking to Anushka Purohit, co-founder of Breer who is solving part of the food waste problem in Hong Kong by turning unused bread into beer.

In this episode we talk about:

Where the idea for Breer began;
Why Hong Kong bakeries were reluctant to give her bread they were going to throw away;
How Breer has raised 4 million Hong Kong dollars through grants and competitions;
The remote healthcare diagnostics tool she is working on;
How she knows when to give up and when to give a project "one last squeeze".

You can find out more about Breer here, or follow Anushka on Instagram

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