Joan Cudworth had a burst of show-and-tell inspiration in the summer of 2018. Cudworth, who was then solid waste supervisor for the town of Hollis, came to the select board meeting with a partial ...

Every day, the world throws away more than a billion meals while nearly 800 million people face hunger. This startling ...

When someone says "food waste," chances are that you immediately imagine a pile of rotting food—gross, smelly, and ugly. The term "waste" evokes a mental image of something inherently disgusting that ...

In a historic announcement, the White House has released a strategy to combat food waste in the United States, with goals of reducing planet-warming pollution and keeping money in people's pockets. On ...

On a special episode (first released on November 13, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: While the U.S. is, on the whole, a wealthy country, currently one in eight Americans is food insecure. Meanwhile, ...

Food waste has become one of humanity's most pressing challenges. While more than seven hundred million people worldwide struggle with hunger, we simultaneously throw away over a billion tonnes of ...

Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. No one, except maybe Sesame Street's ...

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 ...