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Reducing Food Waste Through Operational Discipline

Across institutional and commercial dining, challenges in forecasting, overproduction, and plate waste translate into lost food, labor, energy, and capital. Food waste is one of th...

Singapore studying food donations past 'best by' date; MPs back motion on food resilience, waste reduction

Each person in Singapore generates about 128kg of food waste annually, said MP Poh Li San, one of the motion’s proposers.  

Study: Food banks prevented half a billion kilograms of food waste last year

Food banks helped slash food waste, delivering emissions savings equivalent to taking 473,000 vehicles off the road

15 States That Lead the Way in Battling Food Waste

Households across the U.S. waste almost 40% of food. These states are working to change that trend.

From pledge to real progress: Achieving No.10's food redistribution goal

The government should support industry progress already being made on food waste rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, writes the Food and Drink Federation's Natalie Verner, co...

Reducing Food Waste Before It Reaches the Drain: A Process Engineering Framework for Product Recovery in Food Manufactur...

By Femi Olorunnaiye, P.E., P.Eng., M.Eng., PMP, Senior Process Engineer at Schreiber Foods Key takeaways:  Food manufacturers should treat product recovery as a rigorous engineerin...

GPC to table motion to reduce food waste, strengthen food resilience through government and ground-up efforts

Rising daily food expenses may be top of mind, but upstream improvements need to be discussed so Singapore has a robust infrastructure to serve its food needs in the long run, said...

Study: British households throw away an estimated £18bn of food each year

Forgotten groceries and overcrowded fridges mean Brits waste £11.95 worth of food every week on average, new research reveals

Oxford Food Hub launches campaign to tackle food waste

Oxford Food Hub has launched Reuse, Redistribute and Reconnect: empowering communities through surplus food.

Langham Hospitality Group Takes Circular Approach to Tackling Food Waste

LHG properties across Auckland, Boston, Gold Coast, Jakarta, and Hong Kong are turning kitchen byproducts into menu items, saving hundreds of kilograms of waste annually, while six...

New tool to help cities quantify greenhouse gas emissions from food waste

The Excel-based tool developed by WRI aims to help cities, businesses, and resident associations reduce emissions; it estimates emissions from transportation, treatment, and dispos...

Turning fruit waste into food through fermentation

Every year, the European Union discards more than 58 million tonnes of food, and a significant share of that mountain of waste consists of fruit that never makes it to a shopping t...

Carrefour, Bonapp expand food waste reduction partnership to four more Romanian cities

Carrefour Romania and food waste reduction platform Bonapp have expanded their partnership to four additional Romanian cities after rescuing more than 5 tonnes of food during the p...

10 Tips for More Sustainable Food Service Operations

Discover practical ways to make your food service operation more sustainable, from reducing food waste and energy use to sourcing local, plant-based foods. How to Make Your Food Se...

Paper-based smart packaging offers sustainable path to cut food waste and plastic pollution

image: A new review maps multifunctional modification strategies and matrix-specific applications while warning that recyclability paradoxes and safety gaps still block the road to...

A good kind of rot: Boston wants your old lasagna

Boston, like many cities, is expanding curbside composting to reduce food waste and cut methane, though pests, costs, and  access remain a challenge.

Lidl Romania introduces Anti-Waste Bag for fruits, veggies

Lidl Romania, the operator of one of the largest retail chains in the country, announced on Monday, August 10, the introduction of the Anti-Waste Bag. The new initiative is aimed a...

Ocean waste reduced by 66 percent with project

Plastics contamination an ‘overlooked’ concern in food waste schemes, experts say

Researchers find microplastics can persist in compost, leaching into agricultural soilsPlastic contamination should be a central concern in efforts to deal with food waste, which c...

Great Lakes initiative diverts 24 million pounds of fish waste from landfills

48 organizations across the Great Lakes region have collectively repurposed 24.3 million pounds of fish byproducts, generating $3.4 million in economic value and cutting nearly 9.6...

Building Food Waste Prediction & Carbon Footprint Analyzer: A Google AI Story from India

By Shivam Sharma | Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaContinue reading on Medium »

Food Freshness Card Now Available for Commercial Applications to Reduce Produce Shrink, Food Waste

According to Nature’s Frequencies, independent third-party laboratory testing has demonstrated freshness improvements of up to 50 percent for produce and bread, and commercial reta...

Why Less Packaging Does Not Always Mean Less Waste: Putting Food Protection at the Center of Sustainable Design

World Packaging Day on September 6 is an opportunity to move beyond a simple choice between “more” or “less” packaging. The more useful question is whether each packaging decision...

Edinburgh families binning nearly £300 of food a year – but Glasgow is worse

The staggering cost of food waste for Edinburgh families