Nearly 70% of restaurant food waste comes from what customers leave on their plates. Better portions equals higher profits.

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 ...

UNEP’s Inger Andersen calls for urgent global action to curb food waste, cut methane emissions, and protect resources to secure a resilient zero‑waste future.

The world is facing a growing waste challenge linked to unsustainable production and consumption, with humanity generating up to 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste each year. This year’s ...

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Here are five ways nuclear science is helping tackle food waste and support a zero‑waste future: Food irradiation is an innovative, safe and non-invasive technique that uses radiation such as X-rays, ...

Long before food reaches a supermarket shelf, much of it is already on a countdown to spoilage. In tropical supply chains, where heat moves faster than cold and infrastructure struggles to keep up, ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Reducing Impacts of Food Loss and Waste: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National ...

This activity was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and Bayer Crop Science, ConAgra Foods, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Agreement Number: 59-0790-7-0016). Any ...