Each year in the U.S., more than 90 billion pounds of food goes to waste—enough to make 145 billion meals. Reducing food waste is not only beneficial for the environment, but it also helps save time ...

Scientist and author Anita Vandyke shares her tips for living a zero waste life. After working for seven years in the corporate world as an aerospace engineer, Anita Vandyke said she needed to shed ...

Whether it’s stems and skins or past-their-prime protein and produce, you’re probably throwing a lot of perfectly good food in the trash. Such waste doesn’t come cheap. The average American throws ...

New research has compared whether food waste is reduced more by consumers who are driven by sustainability or those driven by nutrition and health. With somewhat unexpected findings, the study ...

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 ...

Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist and storyteller at the intersection of technology and the humanities, investigating how perspective can enhance, rather than overstimulate, ...

Despite the rising cost of food placing a strain on consumers’ wallets, restaurants, and businesses, more food is ending up in Iowa landfills. In its 2022 Iowa Statewide Material Characterization ...

Grocery prices just keep rising—they’re up more than 2% in the last year, and the trend line doesn’t seem likely to bend downward any time soon. The average monthly spend on groceries is about $504 ...

The rollout of the new bins will start on January 5 and the city council is aiming to have all the bins delivered by the time ...

A novel satellite-based method to track fossil fuel CO2 emissions with greater precision than ever before marks a ...