Each year, Canada generates roughly $58 billion in avoidable food waste, much of which is from spoilage that goes undetected ...

The United States has a festering food waste problem going largely unnoticed. In 2021, according to the nonprofit ReFED, 91 million tons of food – half still edible – were thrown away. Only 2% was ...

If you’ve ever wondered why grocery bills feel higher each month, part of the answer lies in America’s staggering food waste problem. Between 30% and 40% of the national food supply is wasted annually ...

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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, ...

Rising ingredient costs, shifting dining habits, and a persistent operational blind spot are driving significant losses for restaurants. Food waste accounts for up to $162 billion in lost profits each ...

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 ...

When most people think about food shortages, they picture dramatic images: empty shelves after a hurricane, or headline news about droughts in faraway countries. What rarely makes it into dinner ...

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 ...

Tucked away on the kitchen countertop sits a bubbling, living goop in a jar. Each day, a mixture of flour and water feeds the beige concoction, commencing a ritualistic dance that summons wild yeast ...