TURNING FRUIT WASTE

INTO VALUABLE RESOURCES

ABOUT US

OBTAINING RAW MATERIALS FROM CITRUS PEELS

At UglyGood, we harvest fruit waste and transform it into valuable resources (Waste valorisation). We process & extract the components from fruit pulps & peels, so that they can then be used as raw materials for making new products.

In Singapore alone, we generate huge amounts of organic waste every year, yet we only recycle 16% of our food waste. These wastes are currently disposed mainly by incineration, generating huge amounts of C02 and landfills.

Currently, we mainly work with citrus byproducts. The fruit juicing industry is one the most resource inefficient industries where only 50% of the fruit is being utilised while the rest of it are generated as by-products (fruit pulps & peels). Every year Singapore generates about 20,000 tonnes of fruit waste which are currently being incinerated. However, due to the high-water content of the fruit waste the process is highly inefficient and pollutive for the environment. On the other hand, these waste stream represents a potentially valuable resource which can be processed and extracted to create high value products.

As a social enterprise, we also reinvest a majority of our profits back to forward our mission of waste valorization & environmental sustainability.