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Google Develops AI to Help End Food Waste and Feed the Hungry
Google Develops AI to Help End Food Waste and Feed the Hungry
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February 15, 2021
A Google subsidiary called X, or The Moonshot Factory, aims to end food waste around the world with AI. The offshoot created two programs to help food producers, suppliers, and commercial kitchens direct extra food to food banks. Having excess food may seem like a good thing, but it doesn’t usually go to people who need it most. Because of the massive food distribution problem plaguing the globe, Google wanted to find viable solutions.
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February 4, 2021
Food Banks are lacking tracking systems that would enable them to serve more people more efficiently and more easily.//Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.
A little known city on the border of Mexico and Arizona is at the center of of Project Delta, an early-stage moonshot that started at X, Alphabet s moonshot factory, and recently moved to Google, where it will scale up its work. The city, Nogales, sees 75 percent of America’s winter produce pass through its port. It is here that Project Delta could solve America’s hunger crisis and food waste problem at the same time. Project Delta is working with Feeding America and Kroger to bring hard data science and artificial intelligence to the food banking world.
Braskem meets demands of an extraordinary 2020
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When 2020 began, the main item on the calendar of Braskem executive Mark Nikolich was the opening of Project Delta, the firm s new polypropylene resin line in La Porte, Texas.
But many unexpected events happened between January and the start of the new billion-pound-capacity line in September. That list included the COVID-19 pandemic, a pair of hurricanes and 28-day shifts at two Braskem PP plants. There was a lot of anticipation for the new plant, Braskem America CEO Nikolich said in a recent interview with
Plastics News. We were delayed by four months, but we re now running at nameplate capacity.