Food gets wasted at every point in the system. It happens on farms, at factories, in grocery stores and at restaurants. But as we reported in our food waste explainer, the biggest share of wasted food ...

Gulbanu Kaptan was awarded research funding (with project partners WRAP and Zero Waste Scotland) from the UKRI ESRC for a project on reducing household food waste (2020-2022). She is a Co-investigator ...

Most food waste doesn’t come from bad cooking or poor planning. It comes from small everyday habits that quietly pile up, like buying a little too much, forgetting what’s already in the fridge, or ...

Discarded food not only burdens our waste management systems; it also is a growing offender in our climate crisis. "Food waste, if it was its own country, would actually be the third largest emitter ...

Over the last five years, Lesly Baesens and her team have been enthusiastically digging through Denver residents’ garbage cans. They call the practice “waste auditing.” And with each unopened bag of ...