Food gets wasted at every point in the system. It happens on farms, at factories, in grocery stores and at restaurants. But as we reported in our food waste explainer, the biggest share of wasted food ...

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive. Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of ...

Meal kits reduce food waste but often create more packaging. Now companies are redesigning materials, delivery systems, and ...

New calculations show that the European countries have great potential for reducing the demand for global food resources and the associated GHG footprint. Researchers have estimated the climate ...

When I was in New York for Climate Week, I spotted a restaurant advertising “Save the planet, eat local.” Even at many of the events I attended, organizers went out of their way to highlight the local ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grocery stores on the Pacific Coast have made the biggest reduction in food waste ever recorded in the United States, according to ...

Imagine buying three gallons of milk at the store, driving home and pouring one of them down the sink. Or ordering three pizzas, then just dumping one of them into the garbage can. That’s not just a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Noma Nazish writes about actionable ways to live well. New stats from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reveal that ...

Food waste is one of the most often overlooked contributors to climate change; it’s believed to be responsible for up to 11 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Since this waste occurs at ...