YOUR SUSTAINABLE FOOD TO FEED PARTNER
Mission Statement:
Ethically creating a sustainable alternative for underutilized food products that focuses on best use practices and maximizing value, while minimizing the negative impacts on the environment now and for our children’s future generations.
Vision Statement:
Our vision is to be the best solution for discarded valuable food, while lowering greenhouse gas emissions, minimizing stress on landfill capacities, and maximizing agricultural resources. We are committed to creating a sustainable food recovery industry that will allow Farmers, Processors, Storage facilities, Distributors, and Retailers to save time and money while being good stewards of the environment as well as providing a healthy, safe, and economical feed source for our feed customers.
Addie’s Offered Services:
Freight and Delivery
De-packaging of packaged goods with Articles of Destruction
Handling of bulk goods
Marketing of by-products
If you do not see your needs listed, contact Luke Dynes for a productive solution.
MY PROMISE
“Is to do the best job I can to develop long term solutions for our suppliers and customers with both best practice and best use in mind for the product.”
Luke Dynes
Company history
MY NAME IS Luke Dynes
I started recovering crop by-products in 1999 for reuse as animal feed as a partner in Pacific AG Solutions. While building that company I got to see a real need in many industries for the same sort of mentality focused on reuse and upcycling. In 2011 I ventured out to start Wyatt Enterprises, LLC to start helping the food processing plants in the Columbia basin of Washington, drive value out of the by-products they create during the processing of fresh vegetables. In 2018 I had the idea to create a better process to recover packaged food and drive a upcycled value out of it as well, at this point Addie’s Alternative was born to be a better alternative for food waste. In 2025 we are looking to add our 2nd and 3rd facilities in the northwest dedicated towards food upcycling. As you may have gathered I enjoy the challenge of establishing new industries out of materials that are otherwise referred to as waste.
We are your one stop for all steps required to build a sustainable recovery/upcycling process for your outdated or out of spec packaged food!
We handle the entire process in house, from scheduling the trucking to pick up at your location clear through the disposal/recycling of the nonorganic material after food is removed. We understand that each supplier has a different set of needs, so we are more than willing to accommodate special requests of equipment, and all paperwork needed to make this process easy on our customers.
How the process works:
Supplier schedules a meeting with Addie’s to evaluate the material that is in need of being upcycled. We will then find the appropriate most valuable use for the food in the food chain. Next, we evaluate the de-packaging options with the supplier according to the markets that we will selling finished product back to. These markets range from the pet food industry clear down to the soil amendment industry depending on the organic make-up of the material. We are capable of handling dry goods, liquids, and fresh goods. In all packaging types from boxes to bags from glass to plastic containers.