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 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The world wasted an estimated 19 percent of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to a new United Nations report. The U.N. Environment ...

The 'Recipe of Change' initiative is a shared commitment to halve food waste by 2030.

Every day, nearly 1 million pounds of food ends up where no one can eat it: the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill. Food, in fact, is the biggest single item to end up in the landfill, accounting for ...

At Penn’s DumoLab, researchers work to solve multiple problems: how to keep food waste out of landfills, make healthier ...

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 ...

For the past few years, students and faculty members at Fountain Valley School have been involved in a weekly effort to reduce the school’s environmental footprint, help serve the surrounding ...

Every year, millions of tonnes of food end up in South Africa’s landfills. This is a wasted resource that deepens environmental damage, worsens food insecurity and costs the economy billions. But ...

South Korea’s RFID-based waste system transforms household food waste into renewable energy, compost, and livestock feed ...

Every day across Kenya, tonnes of food rot before reaching consumers. Fruits spoil in overheated trucks crawling along ...