With an estimated 30-40% of the United States’ food supply ending up as waste, according to the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Reducing food waste can shrink agriculture’s environmental footprint while helping to feed the hungry and conserve resources. But since food waste occurs across all sectors of the food chain, reducing ...

Food waste diversion advocates say a recent, well-publicized study that found just one state has been effective in reducing food waste through a legislative ban could hurt efforts to tackle the ...

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

UC Riverside scientists have created a small-scale system that transforms food waste into high-protein animal feed and fertilizer using black soldier flies, offering a sustainable solution to a major ...

The global farming, food processing and retail industries create tens of billions of tons of agricultural residues and food waste every year. When crops are harvested, and the edible - or at least the ...

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 ...

Dec. 5 (UPI) --The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting public comments beginning Tuesday on a new strategy aimed at reducing food loss. The USDA, Environmental Protection Agency and Food and ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Around a third of all landfill waste is made up of food that could be instead be composted, made into fertilizer, or disposed of in more useful ways. The University of Tennessee ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, food waste is estimated at between 30% to 40% of the food supply, or about 133 billion pounds, which was $161 billion worth of food in 2010. Local ...