Roughly a third of all food is lost or wasted from the U.S. food supply each year and, with its big holiday meal as the centerpiece, Thanksgiving can be one of the most wasteful days of the year, ...

Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. No one, except maybe Sesame Street's ...

There’s always money in the grocery store dumpster. Some people might look in a grocery store’s dumpster and see garbage. But others are starting to see dollar signs. New facilities are popping up in ...

PORTSMOUTH — Gather, a nonprofit that provides free food to residents in 59 communities in southern New Hampshire, has announced a new initiative to utilize excess food from the hospitality industry.

More than 2 billion people, about a third of the world’s population, face food insecurity. At the same time, a recent UN report estimated that more than 1 billion metric tons of food went to waste in ...

In the U.S., more than a third of the food supply goes uneaten. The waste happens at multiple levels in the production and supply chain and is a big contributor to climate change. Food that ends up ...

Any brand that’s introduced the world to ice cream flavors like Pear & Blue Cheese and Arbequina Olive Oil has to be considered a pioneer. Portland-based Salt & Straw has been shaking up the industry ...

Connecticut legislators have been told for years that a key to solving the state’s waste crisis and lowering costs is to get food scraps out of the waste stream going to the platoon of plants burning ...

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It may sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but diverting food waste from the landfill and converting it into electricity has become a real thing. William Brangham visited Ben & Jerry’s Vermont ice ...