For eight months, Cheah experimented in a spare room in her mother’s house with materials collected from food processing plants in Tuas. — The Straits Times
SINGAPORE: Her idea for a start-up was called garbage. But it did not stop 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.
She had a brainwave to reinvent food waste in 2018 while she was studying part-time for a master’s degree in science at the Singapor Management University.
