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Reducing food waste in La Rochelle: our commitment with Alter Gaia<\/h1>\n

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Since the end of November 2025, our La Rochelle institute has reached a new milestone in its eco-responsible approach. Food testing, essential for evaluating products and innovations, naturally generates leftovers. Rather than discarding them, we have chosen to repurpose them and turn them into sustainable resources. <\/p>\n

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Sustainable approaches to food testing<\/h2>\n

Each test conducted in our laboratories can generate food residues.<\/p>\n

As part of our eco-responsible approach, we have implemented a system to minimize these wastes while continuing to ensure the quality and reliability of our analyses.<\/p>\n

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Alter Gaia: our local composting partner<\/h2>\n

We now collaborate with Alter Gaia<\/a>, a local company specializing in composting and the recovery of organic waste. Every Thursday, their team collects our bins of food scraps using cargo bikes. <\/p>\n

This waste is then transformed into compost, a natural solution that helps enrich the soil and reduce the environmental impact of our activities.<\/p>\n

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A commitment that benefits brands and testers<\/h2>\n

By choosing to collaborate with an institute that valorizes its food waste, brands demonstrate their commitment to a responsible value chain, where every step of their product testing helps reduce environmental impact.<\/p>\n

For our testers, this initiative turns every experience into a sustainable act. Each collected and composted food scrap indirectly contributes to the creation of natural fertilizer, reducing landfill pressure and CO\u2082 emissions. Your tastings thus become a small, tangible gesture for the planet (and we sincerely thank you for your contribution to this local, eco-responsible initiative). <\/p>\n

This approach demonstrates that innovation, quality, and environmental responsibility can go hand in hand, and that everyone\u2014both brands and testers\u2014can play an active role in reducing our carbon footprint.<\/p>\n

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