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, ...

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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 ...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — A Pinellas County nonprofit is expanding its reach to feed more families in need — all by transforming surplus food that would otherwise be thrown away. 360 Eats, a local ...

SWACO plans to expand its composting program to reduce food waste sent to landfills. A pilot program with food trucks successfully composted 500 pounds of organic waste per week. SWACO aims to halve ...

MILFORD, DE- On Monday, the Food Bank of Delaware introduced a new food digester, a solution it says could help tackle the state's food waste problems. The ORCA, short for Organic Recycling Conversion ...

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The scale of food waste in the UK is staggering, with around 88kg wasted per person every year, according to recycling charity Wrap. But the amount recycled from UK households is growing rapidly, with ...

A team of scientists in Singapore has uncovered powerful new evidence that vertical farming — growing food in stacked and often indoor, controlled environments — could radically change how we feed the ...

Can you imagine how much waste every person throws away and which becomes the problem of waste disposal companies? I recently discussed the country’s big waste problem with “Ms. Garbage” herself, ...

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