Welcome to Table Scraps, an intermittent series on the growing problem of food waste and what some eateries, officials, farms, institutes, and everyday people are doing right. This isn’t a guilt trip, ...

The government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history, is making it much less likely that many Americans will have enough food to eat this month.

If you’ve ever wondered why grocery bills feel higher each month, part of the answer lies in America’s staggering food waste problem. Between 30% and 40% of the national food supply is wasted annually ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- America has a food waste problem, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. The federal agency estimates Americans throw out about 133 billion ...

In 2022, households around the world wasted 631 million tons of food, the equivalent of 1 billion meals each day. This staggering number comes with heavy costs for household budgets, global hunger and ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

September 9 - In 2015, world leaders promised to halve food waste by 2030. At the time, around one-third of global food production was being lost. Today, after a decade of campaigns, pledges and in ...

"Due to its quick decay rate, food waste in landfills is contributing to more methane emissions than any other landfilled ...

Harvard has a food waste problem. University administrators think that artificial intelligence can help. Harvard University Dining Services is piloting a new AI-powered system, Winnow, at Adams House, ...

The U.N. report also notes that over 780 million people experience food insecurity worldwide, a sharp contrast to the number of meals that go to waste. Why awareness matters Sept. 29, 2025, is the ...