Food manufacturers and processors send the largest portion of their food waste, 42.6%, through anaerobic digestion – more than any other sector according to the EPA.

The impact of food waste. Food waste, and food loss which occurs when food is lost before it reaches consumers, are a global challenge. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture ...

The price of food is the primary food-related concern among 81% of U.S. households, yet only 33% are aware the average American household could save at least $1,500 per year by eliminating food waste.

“When we waste food, we’re wasting all the resources it takes to grow that food, including energy, water and fertilizer. Meanwhile, wasted food represents 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions,” ...

Americans waste more than 300 pounds of food per person per year, study says. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.

Nearly a quarter of our country’s freshwater is squandered growing food that spoils. Here are ways to protect the environment and your pocketbook by reducing food waste.

With the mangos, Beyond brewed a mango pale ale but also utilised waste rice – considered unsellable as it was ‘broken’ – to replace 75% of fermented sugars. The ambition now is to bolster the ...

When it comes to consumer food waste, the numbers can be staggering, but consider this: More than one-third of “all available food goes uneaten through loss or waste” in the United States ...

Given that 51.7% of this waste comes from the food industry, there is a lot of work that can be done to pass food onto people who could actually make use of it. That’s where the app Too Good To ...