About 52 million tons of food delivered for consumption in the U.S. each year is never eaten and often ends up in landfills, and another 10 million tons of food is wasted before it even leaves the farms. Meanwhile, one in seven Americans is food...
At the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, countries committed to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 12.3, calling for the world to cut food loss and waste in half by 2030...
For communities looking to divert food waste from landfill, partnerships with local farmers’ markets offer a way to address the problem, while engaging and educating residents...
The Baltimore Compost Collective, a food scrap collection service based in Baltimore, is employing local youth to pick up food waste from residential customers and turn it into compost...
Anna DeLage, manager of recycling market development for the South Carolina Department of Commerce, is motivated by the idea of a circular economy. So much so, in fact, that she works daily to close the loop via partnerships, programs and...
If you ask Global Disposal’s CEO Josh Allen about composting best practices, he’ll tell you, “I don’t want to say composting is complicated, but there are some nuances to it.”
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In an effort to help people understand the impact of their waste, Google has launched “Your Plan, Your Planet,” an interactive web app that aims to reduce waste. For the app, Google partnered with the California Academy of Sciences to provide...
Kroger Co. just launched its #ZeroHungerZeroWaste Donation Challenge and invites associates, customers and communities across America to participate by donating groceries to their local food bank, sharing their actions via social media using the...
Online grocer venues are gaining traction. Even e-commerce giant Amazon is among those that have added food sales to their portfolio, and it has publicly stated its plans to expand operations in this market. Meanwhile, this evolving shopping trend...
