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Starting a start-up: Climate tech firm turns food waste into food containers
The start-up scene is packed with flashy funding announcements, but what really goes on behind the glitz and glamour? In this series, The Straits Times sits down with founders to learn how they developed their ideas, and what it takes to ride the roller coaster of entrepreneurship.
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For eight months, Ms Karen Cheah experimented in a spare room in her mother’s house with materials collected from food processing plants in Tuas.
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SINGAPORE – Her idea for a start-up was called garbage.
But it did not stop Ms Karen Cheah from embarking on a mission to tackle the world’s escalating plastic waste and food waste problems at the same time – the company she founded uses food waste to make reusable food containers.
