One of its participating cafes in Pasadena had a flyer on the front door indicating that they were a partner with a goal of ...

As awareness grows around the world about the problem of food waste, one culprit in particular is drawing scrutiny: “best before” labels. Manufacturers have used the labels for decades to estimate ...

It’s called the Food Waste Weekend and it was the idea of Gary Oppenheimer, the founder and executive director of AmpleHarvest.org, an organization that fights hunger and food waste by helping growers ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...