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

Just like every state is known for producing a certain kind of food or produce, every U.S. state is famous for consuming a lot of one particular food. From the state that consumes the most Spam to the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. Every second, Americans throw away enough trash to fill ...

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

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 ...

So what can we do to cut back on food waste? Dana Gunders is a food and agriculture project scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco. She's also author of an NRDC report ...

"If capitalism is such an efficient system, why does 40 percent of all U.S. food production go to waste--while one in six people in the nation face hunger? This startling truth has stirred increasing ...