Evan Lutz, founder and CEO of Baltimore-based Hungry Harvest, believes socially conscious business has the power to end food waste and have a real impact on the environment, community and economy. And to help prove his point, he is working to...
After completing a successful, year-long pilot program, the city of South Portland, Maine, has decided to expand its curbside food waste collection services to all residents. South Portland is the first city within the state to offer such a...
Food waste is still a major issue in the U.S. About $218 billion worth of food is thrown out each year and 21 percent of landfill volume is food waste, according to Feeding America, a nonprofit organization based in Chicago that has a nationwide...
The de Blasio administration recently halted the expansion of its organics collection program, which is currently available to 3.5 million New York City residents in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and the Bronx. The temporary halt...
Tyson Innovation Lab, the Tyson Foods, Inc. team tasked with bringing new consumer products to market in just six months, launched ¡Yappah!, its first brand, on May 31. The brand made its debut with a campaign on Indiegogo, a crowd-funding...
Sporting Kansas City has teamed with Agspring, Monsanto, Syngenta and The Nature Conservancy to launch Sporting Sustainability, a collaborative platform that unites prominent industry leaders to reduce food waste and achieve additional key...
The National Zero Waste Council (NZWC) released its updated National Food Waste Reduction Strategy for preventing food waste in Canada, sharing the report with Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Environment and Climate Change...
More than 40 million Americans struggle with hunger yet nearly $220 billion dollars of food is thrown away in the U.S. each year. Thermo King, a leader in transport temperature control solutions for a variety of mobile applications and a brand of...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Clarkson University with a $75,000 People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) grant, which will be used to develop a more efficient ammonia removal and recovery process for food waste...
Iowa City, Iowa, is gearing up to roll out its new 95-gallon and 25-gallon compost bins, which are free to residents who opt to pay $2 a month for curbside compost collection services. The city will begin distributing the bins at events in June...
