Food Matters: Food Waste

How and why 40 percent of our food goes uneaten.
Guide

Recycling food and other organic waste into compost provides a range of environmental benefits, including improving soil health, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, recycling nutrients, and mitigating the impact of droughts.

Personal Action

Want to make your life on campus more eco-friendly? Stand up for our climate with these simple tricks to conserve power, water, and food.

onEarth Story

Venture capitalists just made a $16.5 million bet on a start-up that wants to sell people ugly, misshapen vegetables. What’s going on?

Rockies Dispatch

Food waste and food insecurity are two sides of the same coin. This creative initiative aims to tackle both.

Northeast Dispatch

The city has developed a bold new food waste management and recovery strategy to protect residents from harmful air pollution, boost its economy, and help feed those most in need.

Personal Action

Your freezer could be the secret to keeping ingredients fresh, saving money, and reducing food waste.

NRDC in Action

NRDC scientist Dana Gunders has written the book on the mounting problem of food waste.

Personal Action

With minimal effort, you can turn those banana peels and apple cores into gold. Let us break it down.

Profile

Jeff Schacher knew that restaurants waste food. And that people are hungry. So he invented a tech-savvy way to rescue millions of meals.

Thomas Schauer
onEarth Story

A pop-up restaurant gives trash-bound food a place at the table.

Southeast Dispatch

In Music City, restaurateurs, grocers, farmers, volunteers, and the mayor are beginning to harmonize in the fight against wasted food.

Personal Action

Learn to trust yourself more and worry less about the date labels on your food.

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