The data shows increased composting and anaerobic digestion in 2024, though retailers’ still wasted $26.9 billion worth of ...

In addition to these downward trends in retail and foodservice, the report shares that Pact pilot projects to test and scale solutions to food waste resulted in significant reductions. To date, these ...

A few simple habits can help you use what you buy, waste less, and keep your groceries under control. If your fridge often turns into a graveyard of forgotten leftovers and wilted produce, you’re not ...

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 ...

Food waste will be transformed into compost and energy, but not all councils will be ready in time.

Long before food reaches a supermarket shelf, much of it is already on a countdown to spoilage. In tropical supply chains, where heat moves faster than cold and infrastructure struggles to keep up, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 go behind the scenes at a food waste processing plant in Northamptonshire.