Imagine going to the market, leaving with three full bags of groceries and coming home. Before you step through your door, you stop and throw one of the bags into a trash bin, which later is hauled ...

When it comes to identifying creative ways to mitigate food waste, researchers at RIT have been managing a full plate of innovative initiatives over the last decade. Faced with a growing world ...

A pilot program in Meriden aims to make sustainability the way of the future. It is the first of its kind in Connecticut and it gives people who live in the city the chance to compost food waste for ...

The expected decline in the number of landfills across the United States coupled with bans on disposing large amounts of organic waste in landfills that have been enacted in multiple states has ...

You've probably seen it before—leftover food that could have been used, just being thrown away at a restaurant. It happens more often than you think. Every year, restaurants generate millions of tons ...

DAEJEON, South Korea — Starting at 5 a.m. each day, dozens of trucks bring more than 400 tons of stinky, sticky food waste from restaurants and homes to a facility the size of two football fields — ...

Earlier this week, the European Union signed a deal committing to legally binding food waste reduction targets to be met by 2030. Under these targets, food processors and manufacturers are obligated ...

Chick-fil-A announced last month it was joining the U.S. Food Waste Pact, a national voluntary agreement that was launched in late 2023 to help food businesses reduce their food waste. In doing so, it ...