Food Waste

The food waste reduction strategy with the greatest environmental benefits is not recycling, it is prevention. 

The model policy also encourages quasi-governmental and local private entities to purchase compost for use in their projects.

Grocers in Europe are deploying many small tactics like labels and discounts push consumers into making more sustainable choices.

The shift to catering could help the food system overhaul to become more sustainable.

Four members of the Upcycled Food Association break down their biggest challenges making upcycled food mainstream.

One in six American jobs is in the food system, so improving the food system is a critical component of building a just economy.

Wasteless uses AI to adjust prices for goods closer to the expiration date, a process that encourages consumers to reduce waste while increasing revenue for retailers.

In the U.S. we throw away $43 million worth of food into landfills, where food waste emits greenhouse gases as it decomposes.

The fast-casual restaurant was able to divert 51 percent of waste relying on cardboard recycling, innovative solutions to film plastic trash and composting.

Revamping our food systems to keep organic waste out of landfills, expand donation ability and end confusion 'over best by dates' could dramatically reduce our food waste.