Rising ingredient costs, shifting dining habits, and a persistent operational blind spot are driving significant losses for ...

If you’ve ever wondered why grocery bills feel higher each month, part of the answer lies in America’s staggering food waste problem. Between 30% and 40% of the national food supply is wasted annually ...

The United States has a festering food waste problem going largely unnoticed. In 2021, according to the nonprofit ReFED, 91 million tons of food – half still edible – were thrown away. Only 2% was ...

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On a special episode (first released on November 13, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: While the U.S. is, on the whole, a wealthy country, currently one in eight Americans is food insecure. Meanwhile, ...

NEW YORK CITY, New York — As food waste continues to pile up in landfills across the U.S., composting is gaining traction as more communities and policymakers look for ways to curb trash volumes and ...

Afresh just raised $34 million to expand its AI tools that help supermarkets cut food waste. Grocery stores waste around four million tons of food in the U.S. each year—mostly fresh food, since it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Penn’s DumoLab, researchers work to solve multiple problems: how to keep food waste out of landfills, make healthier building materials and tackle climate change.

Tucked away on the kitchen countertop sits a bubbling, living goop in a jar. Each day, a mixture of flour and water feeds the beige concoction, commencing a ritualistic dance that summons wild yeast ...