A woman sits in her kitchen, showing off the contents of her bag in a video she’s filming for TikTok. Her excitement permeates through the screen as she babbles about the “rare find” she’s picked up, ...

We have a problem with food waste in the United States. According to a study done by the nonprofit ReFED, an estimated 31 percent of the U.S. food supply was wasted in 2023. This amounted to 63 ...

Food waste is a pressing global issue, with millions of tonnes of edible food discarded every year. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), approximately one-third of ...

Even amid rising grocery prices and increased sensitivity to environmental issues, Americans still trash once-edible food at alarming rates.

Globally, the average person wastes around 132 kg of food per year, and this number is rising. Wealthy countries waste more food per person, but in an opinion paper publishing September 26 in the Cell ...

According to Green Umbrella Regional Climate Collaborative, nearly 60 million tons of food get thrown away every year—around 40 percent of all food produced. That’s why Green Umbrella is teaming up ...

Trang Nguyen receives funding from the End Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre and the Australian Government. Jack Hetherington receives funding from the End Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre ...

Every year, millions of tonnes of food end up in South Africa’s landfills. This is a wasted resource that deepens ...

Oregon lawmakers are considering HB 3018, which would require thousands of Oregon businesses - from hospitals to restaurants to food producers - to compost their food waste. Nationwide, an estimated ...

We never wasted food when I lived at home with my parents in Slovakia. We grew our own vegetables and fruits, and made jams and pickles from leftovers. Our food waste went to my grandma’s chickens ...