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 EU and UK pledged to reduce food waste, in line with the UN's goal to halve global food waste by 2030. With most (approximately 53%) of total food waste in European countries occurring in homes, ...

The author’s family uses a variety of bins and boxes to collect items for composting and recycling. How can we reduce waste at home? Follow a family for two years to learn how they implemented ...

Tracking food waste can save you hundreds — maybe even thousands — of dollars a year. Here are some expert tips for how to eat what you buy and buy only what you will eat. Three-quarters of a red ...

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 ...

One and a half billion. That’s about how many chicken wings Americans prepared to eat during the Big Game, the second largest food consumption day of the year after Thanksgiving. If that’s not ...

Most food waste doesn’t come from bad cooking or poor planning. It comes from small everyday habits that quietly pile up, like buying a little too much, forgetting what’s already in the fridge, or ...

“It’s hard for a bruised apple to find a home.” That’s how registered dietitian Judy Barbe began “Fuel for the Future: Solutions to Reduce Food Waste at Home,” a recent webinar sponsored by the ...

Every banana peel, coffee filter and wilted lettuce leaf you toss in the trash ends up somewhere — and more often than not, that somewhere is a landfill. But there is a simple, practical alternative ...

The night before heading out of town, Irene Shiang Li stares down the bag of unused arugula in her near-empty fridge in Boston. She’s sorting out dinner with her husband. “We need to eat an enormous ...