Sustainability Startup Ecotone Renewables Wants to Eliminate Food Waste, or at Least Make It Useful

Nate McDowell from Squirrel Hill, an intern with Ecotone Renewables replants tomatoes grown at the "Seahorse," in Swissvale, Pa., on July 23, 2021. Pam Panchak/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

By Lauren Rosenblatt From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH—Ecotone Renewables, a startup by students and graduates of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, wants to change the way the world thinks about food waste—and it wants to use a seahorse to do so.