When someone says "food waste," chances are that you immediately imagine a pile of rotting food—gross, smelly, and ugly. The term "waste" evokes a mental image of something inherently disgusting that ...

On a special episode (first released on November 13, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: While the U.S. is, on the whole, a wealthy country, currently one in eight Americans is food insecure. Meanwhile, ...

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Restaurants and grocery stores are using AI to cut down on food waste. A staggering 30% to 40% of food grown in the US goes uneaten and trashed. To combat that, companies are training AI to analyze ...

In a historic announcement, the White House has released a strategy to combat food waste in the United States, with goals of reducing planet-warming pollution and keeping money in people's pockets. On ...

In 2022, households around the world wasted 631 million tons of food, the equivalent of 1 billion meals each day. This staggering number comes with heavy costs for household budgets, global hunger and ...

Photo Credit: iStock Shoppers love Aldi for its affordable prices, organic options, and efficient shopping experience. But as one dumpster diver recently pointed out, some Aldi stores throw away a lot ...

Food waste has become one of humanity's most pressing challenges. While more than seven hundred million people worldwide struggle with hunger, we simultaneously throw away over a billion tonnes of ...

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 ...