In the United States, millions of pounds of edible food are destroyed every day while families struggle to afford basic ...

A new food waste reduction toolkit from the US Food Waste Pact shows frontline workers how small improvements in their daily work can have an outsized impact Created in collaboration with the Pacific ...

Learn about the staggering amount of food waste in the US and its environmental impact. Discover practical tips to reduce food waste and save money.

American households toss about 26.5 million tons of food every year, 96% of which gets landfilled, burned, or flushed down ...

Whether it’s stems and skins or past-their-prime protein and produce, you’re probably throwing a lot of perfectly good food in the trash. Such waste doesn’t come cheap. The average American throws ...

Waste Management's new plant in Anderson is capable of processing about 40,000 tons of green waste and food scraps annually.

File: Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing ...

It’s no secret that New York City, like many densely populated urban areas throughout history, has a trash and rodent problem. Mountains of bloated trash bags —many containing food waste that attract ...