Food Waste

Brown’s Super Stores throws out almost no food from any of its 12 Philadelphia area grocery stores; it doesn’t even have dumpsters for food. That’s because what started as a relatively small food donation project years ago, in partnership with...

Turner Wyatt is a on a mission to reduce food waste around the world. Wyatt, who was named a 2020 Waste360 40 Under 40 award recipient, serves as CEO of the recently formed Upcycled Food Association. He spoke with Waste360 about why he believes...

ReFED’s day-to-day focus has always been to accelerate actions to prevent food waste, while seeing that good food gets to those who may otherwise go hungry. Little did the organization know, until a few months ago, that COVID-19 would hit, and...

The New York City Department of Sanitation reminds some additional food-related businesses that starting today, they will be required by law to separate their organic waste – such as food scraps. Approximately 8,500 businesses are covered by the...

Union County in northeastern New Jersey will soon break ground on a privately financed $220 million recycling facility after officials approved an amendment in the county’s recycling plan that paves the way for the facility’s construction...

According to the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, scientists have discovered a new way to create biofuel using traditional waste products like grease from fast food restaurants and waste from lithium batteries. The creation of the new...

Food waste is expected to increase in the next ten years to 2.1 billion tons, worth $1.5 trillion (Boston Consulting Group). Misfits Markets, which sells subscription boxes with imperfect produce – considered too ugly to be sold at grocery stores...

Upcycling — reusing discarded objects and materials to create products of higher value than the originals — is growing trend that creates a lot of prospects for manufacturers of food and beverage products...

A Seattle tech company has landed $12 million in equity funding to fuel the growth of its software, which is aimed at helping grocers manage food orders to reduce waste and spoilage issues...