Major UK supermarkets launch investigations after shocking food waste claims - The chains have been accused of sending edible food to landfill ...

The new law would establish a tiered regulatory structure for the facilities modeled by the U.S. Composting Council, drawing ...

Recent videos posted on Instagram and TikTok by Food_waste_inspector show bins at Lidl stores filled with in-date steaks and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the last five years, Lesly Baesens and her team have been enthusiastically digging through Denver residents’ garbage cans. They call the practice “waste auditing.” And with each unopened bag of ...

Food waste remains a significant pressure on the global food retail supply chain, with the economic cost forecast to reach £400bn by 2026.

The all-you-care-to-eat dining hall is one of the most common elements of the American college experience. For many Ohio State students, it takes just a single swipe of a BuckID, and a seemingly ...

We have a problem with food waste in the United States. According to a study done by the nonprofit ReFED, an estimated 31 percent of the U.S. food supply was wasted in 2023. This amounted to 63 ...

September 11, 2025 – American consumers are losing about $728 each year to food waste, nearly double previous estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). A family of four loses nearly $3 ...

File: Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing ...

In 2022, the Japanese artist Ichio Usui fixed googly eyes to the sort of food that often gets wasted – aubergines, squash, pineapples and the like. Japan has one of the highest food waste per capita ...