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    Meet the Machine That's Turning Grocery Stores' Food Waste Into Fertilizer

    A pair of seasoned tech workers are helping to solve a $165 billion problem.
    by Jenna Schnuer Jun 01, 2015 3 minutes
    Putting waste to work: WISErg’s Jose Lugo (left) and Larry LeSueur.

    Larry LeSueur is used to former peers from the software world asking him, “What the heck are you doing?” It’s a reasonable question, considering the decidedly different turn he and his former Microsoft colleague Jose Lugo took in 2010 when they founded Redmond, Wash.-based WISErg, anxious to solve the growing problem of food waste in America. 

    That’s right—the duo went from high-tech to food scraps, hoping to address the fact that 40 percent of food in the U.S.—about $165 billion worth

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