Food goes to waste every day in America, no matter how hard families try to only buy what they need. In fact, 80 billion pounds of food is thrown away every year in the United States, and roughly 30% ...

It’s no secret that New York City, like many densely populated urban areas throughout history, has a trash and rodent problem. Mountains of bloated trash bags —many containing food waste that attract ...

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 ...

Once a little girl roaming the vibrant fields of an organic lettuce farm in Kealakekua, Hawai‘i, Ella Kilpatrick Kotner learned how to live in harmony with the land before most kids learn how to tie ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Danielle Nierenberg is a researcher and writer on global food systems. Over the years, the conversations we’ve been having about ...

Each year, Australian households discard about 2.5 million tonnes of food. Most (73%) of this food waste ends up in landfill. This is costly and contributes to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, ...

On World Environment Day, local businesses are turning leftovers into fertiliser and other sustainable solutions.