LOS ANGELES -- I was so excited to try the Zero-Waste challenge. I was really confident that I had so many easy solutions for eliminating waste from my daily life. Yet, I was wrong! It was much harder ...

File: Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing ...

For many Americans the holidays represent a season of plenty, with big meals for friends and family and lots of extra treats. But this time of year also come with a lot of uneaten leftovers which is ...

Robert Sanders, assistant professor of marketing and analytics at the Rady School of Management, explains the major impacts that food going to landfills has on our warming planet University of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A sense of urgency can be felt on the floors of the Northern Illinois Food Bank in Geneva. Volunteers vigorously work to sort and box up food for donation. But despite their best ...

Food choices shape far more than our health. They influence land use, water resources, and the amount of heat-trapping pollution released into the atmosphere. Because of this wide-reaching impact, ...

Grocery retailers may not need new technology—or behavior change from shoppers—to meaningfully reduce food waste. New research in the journal Management Science finds that small operational decisions ...

A quarter of councils in the UK are going to miss a deadline to pick up people's food waste from their homes - but why should we care?

According to state officials, Washington residents generate more than 1 million tons of food waste each year. That amounts to approximately 300 pounds per person and accounts for an estimated 20 perce ...

A mountain of shrimp shells, heads, and tracts often ends up in landfills, left to rot by the seafood industry. Now, researchers at the University of Sharjah have found a way to turn this overlooked ...

This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 13 - Climate action. Global climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, posing significant risks ...