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 ...

Food waste remains a significant pressure on the global food retail supply chain, with the economic cost forecast to reach ...

Did you know that nearly 2.5 billion tons of food are wasted every year? If we could recoup just half of that, we could end world hunger. Food waste also has a huge environmental impact. Globally, the ...

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, 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 ...

Most people don’t set out to waste food. And yet, we’re pretty much all guilty of it. It happens everywhere in our food system. Tomatoes that don’t meet product specifications get left on the vine at ...

Trang Nguyen has received funding and is affiliated with the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre. Patrick O'Connor has received funding from the Australian Research Council, the South ...

Humans grow and waste food at a staggering scale. We devote half the earth’s habitable land to food production, while ultimately tossing one-third of that food. Simply using the food we grow and buy ...

There are countless ways we’re advised to live more sustainably – drive an electric car, fly less often, don’t eat meat, shop local. And yet, there’s another environmental action that’s relatively ...

This story was originally published on Dec. 11, 2019, and has been updated to include a rerun of the podcast episode. Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR ...

Heather Billings, food waste reduction consultant. Credit... Supported by By Somini Sengupta Photographs by Cassandra Klos America has a food waste problem: Rotten tomatoes and pizza boxes end up in ...