Commercial kitchens face a massive, expensive challenge: food waste. Every year, the U.S. throws away $382 billion wor ...

Food waste has become one of the biggest environmental challenges facing the restaurant industry in the United States. Every ...

You've probably seen it before—leftover food that could have been used, just being thrown away at a restaurant. It happens more often than you think. Every year, restaurants generate millions of tons ...

Modern landfills are designed to capture the methane emitted, but even the most efficient systems still allow almost 58% to ...

Food waste has often been regarded as an inevitable by-product of today’s food systems, but tackling it is emerging as a critical lever for climate change mitigation, improved resource use and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Danielle Nierenberg is a researcher and writer on global food systems. Over the years, the conversations we’ve been having about ...

Most people don’t set out to waste food. And yet, we’re pretty much all guilty of it. It happens everywhere in our food system. Tomatoes that don’t meet product specifications get left on the vine at ...

Food waste, and food loss which occurs when food is lost before it reaches consumers, are a global challenge. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), about one third ...