Miraculum™ is a new, eco-friendly solution for assisting in preventing and extinguishing a variety of fires. It also has products to combat mould and mildew. Many fire retardant products include…
Sandra Rey is an entrepreneur that will light up your life – both with the force of her personality and the bioluminescence tech she hopes will replace conventional lighting. Sandra…
Sara Smith is the founder of Wrappily, an eco-friendly and adorably chic outfit that is changing how we present gifts. What Sara has done is deliver a whole new take…
Mental Canvas is a software company that is developing a new class of graphical-media-design system that lies between today’s 2D digital draw-and-paint systems and 3D computer-aided design systems, combining the…
In 2003, while watching her niece playing netball uncomfortably in a traditional hijab and veil, Aheda Zanetti, founder of Ahiida – had a stroke of genius. She saw a gap…
Pakistani startup SheKab has been selected as one of 12 startups to join the Norway-based Katapult Accelerator. Some of the other startups selected for Katapult this year include Sensewaves from France, OTTAA from Argentina, Needslist and ImpactMapper from the USA, and CodersTrust from Bangladesh.
When Jenny Dawson Costa began selling chutneys made from waste food she didn’t always get a positive response from fussy Borough Market customers. “At the beginning we’d tell people our products are made from fruit and veg that would otherwise go to waste and you could see them going ‘eurgh’,” she says. But banish any thoughts of rummaging through the bins. Dawson Costa’s company Rubies in the Rubble has been turning surplus food into high-end chutneys and relishes since 2011, using fruit and vegetables usually thrown away before they reach supermarket shelves.
Jenny Costa,Co-founder, Rubies in the Rubble, on selling burgers, ‘reading’ the FT and being like a rabbit
Jenny's Rubies in the Rubble cocktail uses her ketchups in an innovate way, created as part of the Diplomats of a New Era campaign with Diplomático
Set up in 2011, Rubies in the Rubble saves surplus fruit and vegetable produce from the rubbish heap by turning it into delicious jams, relishes, chutneys, ketchups and other condiments. It’s a smart, commercial solution to a growing food waste problem that big industry players are struggling to fix.