With over one billion tonnes of food waste generated annually worldwide — accounting for 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions — a new report from IEA Bioenergy TCP Task 36 has examined the sorting ...

VACAVILLE, CA - APRIL 20: A tractor drives past piles of compost at the Jepson Prairie Organics compost facility April 20, 2009 in Vacaville, California. Norcal Waste Systems is collecting food scraps ...

Stale bread. A surplus of scrambled eggs. Unused broccoli stems. Much of the detritus regularly carted from Yale’s dining hall kitchens doesn’t end up in the landfill — instead, it is taken to a ...

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 ...

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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 ...