Steam rises from the top of towering piles of compost at a landfill in western Placer County, California. The jaws of an excavator rake up and churn the heaps, unleashing a stench of decomposing food.

Food waste is getting a lot of attention lately, and for good reason. No matter how you slice it, the statistics are downright alarming. The world produces 17% more food than it did 30 years ago, yet ...

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 ...

Pressures such as population growth, urbanization, and land degradation are straining the global agrifood system, the network connecting all steps of the food supply chain from growing crops in the ...

These numbers are nearly impossible to envision, but the general takeaway is this: as millions go hungry, we continue to waste perfectly good food on an enormous scale. The issue goes beyond hunger: ...

The statistics are sobering: In the United States, we generate approximately 35 million tons of food waste every year, and as individual families, we waste about 30 percent of the food we buy. For the ...

Packaging that lowers food waste? It seems too good to be true but scientists say it’s possible, in fact, it already exists! Food waste is a serious issue across the globe. It contributes to climate ...

A row of restaurants in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., looks tantalizing — there's Vietnamese, Italian, New American. But if you walk around to the alley at the back of this row ...

Food waste is a significant problem in Kentuckiana, with 83% of waste in Jefferson County being recoverable. Wasted food generates harmful greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to climate change.

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 ...

Professor of Food Policy, City St George's, University of London Foundation essay: This article on food waste by Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at City University London, is part of a series ...