Rising ingredient costs, shifting dining habits, and a persistent operational blind spot are driving significant losses for ...

Commercial kitchens face a massive, expensive challenge: food waste. Every year, the U.S. throws away $382 billion wor ...

Composting is growing across the U.S. as food waste and landfill concerns mount, but experts say major obstacles remain ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Food waste in America is a growing problem. Here’s how much food is wasted, why it happens, and what it means for households and the economy.

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 ...

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 ...

Raising Cane's employees have taken to the internet to discuss the chicken chain's food waste issue. Here's why they think there's a problem.