HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — Here are some food waste facts that might be hard to swallow: The average family of 4 in Florida throws out about $1600 worth of food each year. 40% of all food grown and ...

When someone says "food waste," chances are that you immediately imagine a pile of rotting food—gross, smelly, and ugly. The term "waste" evokes a mental image of something inherently disgusting that ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Deputy Administrator Stan Meiburg announced the United States' first-ever national food waste reduction goal, calling for a ...

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 Organization (FAO), about one third ...

Two years after California launched an effort to keep organic waste out of landfills, the state is so far behind on getting food recycling programs up and running that it’s widely accepted next year’s ...

Each year, Australian households discard about 2.5 million tonnes of food. Most (73%) of this food waste ends up in landfill. This is costly and contributes to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, ...