Food waste processed to make bioleather

Ms. Esther Marie Lin, Principal Research Engineer at A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), along with Dr. Teng Choon Peng, IMRE’s Senior Research Engineer, have developed a technology that can transform fruit waste into sustainable material such as bioleather. They discovered that food waste, including expired tea leaves, dehydrated fruit fibres and pudding powder, can be converted into bioleather through a fermentation process.