Cradle-to-grave greenhouse gas emissions within the global food systems are responsible for nearly half of all emissions. Alarmingly, a significant portion of these emissions is linked to avoidable ...

You've probably seen it before—leftover food that could have been used, just being thrown away at a restaurant. It happens more often than you think. Every year, restaurants generate millions of tons ...

Tracking and paying close attention to the products and menu items that are not being used and thrown out is a great way to track habitual waste. Regularly assessing these specific items in the ...

Imagine if the price of a tub of yogurt, gallon of milk or loaf of bread dropped a little each week as the expiration date neared. Wasteless, an Israeli-based startup, is making it happen with their ...

Did you know that nearly 2.5 billion tons of food are wasted every year? If we could recoup just half of that, we could end world hunger. Food waste also has a huge environmental impact. Globally, the ...

Around one-third of the food produced worldwide—that's fit for human consumption—gets spoiled or squandered every year, according to the United Nations (UN). This massive wastage of food isn't just ...

Oct 31 (Reuters) - A group of local U.S. government officials from 18 states on Tuesday urged the Environmental Protection Agency to phase out food waste disposal in landfills by 2040 to cut emissions ...

Researchers from the Center for Food Policy at City St George's, University of London and Scotland's Rural College have set out six key areas for action that could help households cut down on food ...

One-third of all food in America is wasted leads to billions of dollars lost each year, according to a new Gallup survey on the state of food waste in America. Until now, researchers have known little ...

More than one-third of the food produced in the U.S. is never eaten. Much of it ends up in landfills, where it generates tons of methane that hastens climate change. That's why more than 50 local ...

Food waste, and food loss which occurs when food is lost before it reaches consumers, are a global challenge. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), about one third ...

The United States generates more food waste than all but two countries. To address this, the federal government set a goal to cut food waste in half by 2030 compared to 2016 levels, to about 164 ...