A staggering amount of food never reaches our plates, and the UN estimates that a third of the global crop grown for human consumption gets wasted. Sometimes produce is damaged, lost, spoils, or it is simply too ugly to sell.

Dole Foods, the largest producer of fruit and vegetables, has announced that they plan to reduce food waste to zero by 2025, with initiatives that include upcycling edible but otherwise unsellable produce, researching and developing new uses for the inedible parts of the fruits and vegetables they can’t sell. They also want to eliminate fossil fuel-based plastic packaging in five years and reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2030.