food waste, Tag

We know food waste is an issue, but often it's all too easy to forget about that bag of lettuce in the back of your refrigerator until it rots. It turns out 40 percent of the salad British families buy each year ends up in...

You now have one more reason to love IKEA. By 2020, the Swedish company plans to cut food waste by 50% at its stores — including its restaurants and smaller bistros. To accomplish this, employees will use digital scales...

Businesses in Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam are getting involved in efforts to collect waste bread and turn it into biogas and fertiliser

The kitchen of the future will be healthier for our planet and improve our family ties through food. That's the vision behind The Future Kitchen, a proposal by New York-based architect Marc Thorpe and students of the industrial...

Grocery stores to food banks to big corporations like Walmart and Hasbro have all taken measures to combat food waste. But there's still a long way to go in the fight: new research from United Kingdom (UK) supermarket chain...

A brewery in London is taking a bite out of food waste. Launched last year, Toast makes its beers from surplus fresh bread, including the heel ends of loaves, that would otherwise feed the landfill. Toast combines the bread...

 Full Harvest, a San Francisco-based startup, has raised $2 million in seed funding to reduce food waste at the farm level. Founded by Christine Moseley, formerly the head of business development for cold-pressed juice...

Sending leftover food from grocery stores to food banks may seem like a simple answer to food waste, but management and distribution have complicated the process in the past...

Overlooking a private bay along the Northern Coast of Koh Samui, Thailand, The Tongsai Bay Hotel boasts more than luxurious seaside accommodations. The award-winning family-owned resort was built within a 28 and a half acre...

The largest grocer in America is recognizing that beauty is only skin deep, even when it comes to “ugly” fruits and vegetables. Walmart will be rolling out a line of imperfect apples, aptly named “I’m Perfect,”...

If you’ve ever grown your own food, you know fruits and vegetables don’t always turn out picture-perfect. Unfortunately, the developed world’s fixation on beautiful fruit means mass amounts of “ugly” and blemished...

Pop quiz: What food is packed with vitamins and fiber, but is almost always purchased just to be thrown away? If you said banana peels, you’re right...

Composting is an awesome way to get rid of fruit and veggie scraps and gain rich garden soil. Yet there's still many food scraps that can't be composted, like meat and bones. Compostec's Green Cone solves that problem, drawing...

It’s never too late to take control of your personal finances. Whether you’re hoping to save up for a summer vacation or committed to making this year more financially successful than the last, learning frugality and...

Restaurant owner Minu Pauline noticed a woman digging through the trash for food one night, and realized her eatery could cut down on food waste by making a difference for hungry people in her community...