Of about 10.5 million tons of surplus food generated by food retailers in 2019, almost 35% was thrown out, with about 10% of it due to inefficiencies in storage and handling. Yet a majority of that storage and handling-related waste, which costs $150 billion annually, is preventable, according to Therma, a San Francisco, Calif.-based developer of smart refrigeration tools. Therma has a technology to address this latter problem.
