Uglies chip in to help reduce food waste, with milestone achievement
UGLIES Kettle Potato Chips reached a milestone achievement earlier this month: 5 million pounds of cosmetically irregular potatoes have been upcycled to craft its kettle-cooked potato chips. As part of its mission to reduce food waste, and educate the consumer on produce imperfection, UGLIES Kettle Potato Chips sources "ugly" potatoes that are deemed cosmetically challenged by today’s produce standards and crafts them into delicious kettle potato chips.
By purchasing UGLIES, consumers can feel good about helping small farms all around the country. UGLIES brand supports farmers by upcycling perfectly edible potatoes that would otherwise end up in landfills or plowed back into the earth resulting in emissions of harmful greenhouse gases. It also runs a zero-waste facility, diverting over 200 tons of waste from the landfill to be combusted for energy recovery.