The Food Matters Restaurant Challenge is back after a six-year hiatus, with 11 restaurants reinventing their recipes to save money and ingredients ...

The evidence is undeniable: against a backdrop of growing food insecurity, we’re drowning in an epidemic of food waste. Maintaining current farming and food management methods jeopardizes the health ...

Reducing food waste isn’t just preferable, it’s crucial. So what is the industry doing to tackle the mounting problem and what more can be done? Food waste is a major issue for the world. It impacts ...

Food gets wasted at every point in the system. It happens on farms, at factories, in grocery stores and at restaurants. But as we reported in our food waste explainer, the biggest share of wasted food ...

Over the last five years, Lesly Baesens and her team have been enthusiastically digging through Denver residents’ garbage cans. They call the practice “waste auditing.” And with each unopened bag of ...

Preventing food waste saves money, resources and the planet. So, why is it so hard? One key reason: Eating food that we’re culturally conditioned to throw away can be downright awkward. Reducing food ...

In September 2015, the U.S. set an ambitious target of reducing its food loss and waste by 50 percent. The idea was to reduce the amount of food that ends up in landfills, where it emits greenhouse ...