Food waste is a crisis we can no longer ignore. Every year, roughly a third of all food produced for human consumption ends up wasted, totaling over a billion tons globally according to recent reports ...

What we throw away as food waste may hold the key to healthier crops, stronger ecosystems, and new medical compounds.

State Rep. Paul Friel, D-26th Dist., has introduced a bill (H.B. 2393) that seeks to change the way Pennsylvania handles food processing residue — addressing the hazards this waste can cause for rural ...

The Pennsylvania House last month voted in a bipartisan fashion to pass two bills introduced by state Rep. Paul Friel, D-26th Dist., changing the way that Pennsylvania handles and safeguards ...

UC Riverside scientists have created a small-scale system that transforms food waste into high-protein animal feed and ...

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 ...

Using an Uber-like app, Last Mile enlists more than 850 volunteers to pick up food and deliver it to local nonprofits ...

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 ...

It’s that time of the week when your food waste pail is full, and you’re ready to walk your scraps out to the green-waste bin. (You are following your community’s rules about composting food scraps, ...

A Pizza Hut employee took to Reddit with revealing, behind-the-scenes photos that highlighted the enormous amount of food waste that the restaurant allegedly produces. “Every few days, we throw out ...