According to the 2021 United Nations Food Waste Index, the average Canadian household wastes 79 kilograms of food every year ...

Between 2014 and 2024, nine U.S. states made it unlawful for commercial waste generators -- such as grocery chains -- to dispose of their food waste in landfills, expecting a 10-15% waste reduction.

Most of this plastic waste ends up in freshwaters, with a large part, including bottles and plastic used in the construction sector, sinking in waterways and lakes. The rest, including food ...

Virtually indestructible, PFAS are used in fast-food packaging and countless household items. PFAS lurk in much of what we eat, drink and use, but scientists are only beginning to understand how ...

Meal kit company HelloFresh has repurposed nearly four million pounds of food waste into new food-based products like compost and animal feed. This equates to preventing approximately 1,307 tons of ...

Across the US, businesses waste 80 billion pounds of food each year. While some states have implemented commercial food waste bans, only Massachusetts has seen a meaningful reduction in total ...

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 ...

Professor Gordon Price from Dalhousie University and Professor Grant Clark from McGill University study the hidden climate change costs of food loss and waste in Canada. Here, they highlight the need ...

The research, published in the journal Science on Thursday, looked at the first five states to enact food waste bans: California, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and Massachusetts. Between 2014 and ...

Between 2014 and 2024, nine states in total banned commercial food suppliers like Whole Foods and Applebee’s from disposing of food waste in landfills. The laws require them to compost or donate ...