What we throw away as food waste may hold the key to healthier crops, stronger ecosystems, and new medical compounds.

State Rep. Paul Friel, D-26th Dist., has introduced a bill (H.B. 2393) that seeks to change the way Pennsylvania handles food processing residue — addressing the hazards this waste can cause for rural ...

Food waste is a crisis we can no longer ignore. Every year, roughly a third of all food produced for human consumption ends ...

UC Riverside scientists have created a small-scale system that transforms food waste into high-protein animal feed and ...

The Pennsylvania House last month voted in a bipartisan fashion to pass two bills introduced by state Rep. Paul Friel, D-26th Dist., changing the way that Pennsylvania handles and safeguards ...

Pressures such as population growth, urbanization, and land degradation are straining the global agrifood system, the network connecting all steps of the food supply chain from growing crops in the ...

It’s that time of the week when your food waste pail is full, and you’re ready to walk your scraps out to the green-waste bin. (You are following your community’s rules about composting food scraps, ...

Humans grow and waste food at a staggering scale. We devote half the earth’s habitable land to food production, while ultimately tossing one-third of that food. Simply using the food we grow and buy ...

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 ...