Divert Breaks Ground on North Carolina Facility to Help Retailers Reduce Food Waste

Divert’s Integrated Diversion & Energy Facility in Lexington, North Carolina, will address a critical need for infrastructure to combat the wasted food crisis in the southeast U.S.

Divert, Inc., a circular economy company on a mission to prevent food from being wasted, has broken ground on April 30 on its Integrated Diversion & Energy Facility in Lexington, N.C., addressing a critical need for infrastructure to combat the wasted food crisis in the southeast United States.

“It is fitting that today’s groundbreaking falls on Stop Food Waste Day, as we continue to scale our infrastructure to advance a circular food system nationwide — and now in North Carolina,” said Ryan Begin, CEO and co-founder of Concord-Mass.-based Divert. “We know that this community shares our vision for advancing sustainability and circularity, and we welcome the opportunity to bring significant social, environmental, and economic benefits to the region.”

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With the development of its Integrated Diversion & Energy Facilities, Divert now provides an end-to-end solution that prevents wasted food, facilitates edible food recovery to feed people in need, and transforms unsold food products into beneficial products. In doing so, Divert is recouping the value in unsold food by producing renewable energy, preventing it from going to landfill and creating harmful methane emissions, while also returning the nutrients in food back to the earth to support further food growth — advancing a circular food system.