Food Waste Enough to Feed World’s Hungry Four Times Over
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 28 2018 (IPS) – The United Nations is continuing to fight a relentless battle to eradicate extreme hunger – particularly in the world’s poorest nations—by 2030.
Time’s up for best-before dates. Which fresh foods keep best?
Tesco is to stop using date stamps on own-brand produce. Which fruit and veg improves with age and which loses most nutrients. Best-before dates have expired, at least for fruit and vegetables. This week Tesco revealed it is to stop using the date stamps on almost 70 of its own-brand products in an attempt to tackle food waste. But is older produce as good for you as fresher stuff?
Top consumer brands pledge to halve food waste by 2025
The world’s top food and drink companies have promised to halve the food they waste by 2025, seeking to preempt government regulation prompted by concern about the environmental, economic and social costs of such inefficiency.
Farms Can Help Reduce Food Waste (Podcast)
A farmer participating in the “No Taste for Waste” campaign is recycling inedible foods to make electricity and fertilizer. The collaboration by the American Farm Bureau Federation and others seeks to reduce food waste, which accounts for up to 40 percent of all food produced. Farm Bureau member and Pennsylvania dairy farmer Brett Reinford is participating.
Could this startup shame restaurants into wasting less food?
Zornes’s company, Winnow, provides technology that helps restaurants cut food waste. In the UK, where £13bn worth of food is thrown away every year, the hospitality sector alone is wasting £2.5bn of food.
This new restaurant is making gourmet meals out of food waste
InStock, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is having its chefs create meals out of food waste.
The $1 Trillion Mountain: The Actual Cost Of Food Waste
Imagine receiving just 60 percent of your pay. Or when you send email, 40 percent are never delivered. We don’t tolerate 40 percent inefficiency in anything, yet we’ve come to accept it with the major resource that sustains the human race: our food.
Food waste – a tremendous economic waste
One of the main challenges we need to solve as soon as possible is food waste and loss. We not only need to, but the good news is, we can. The prize is not only a huge societal impact, and impact on possibly every Sustainable Development Goal, it is also an enormous economic prize. A prize for the western world, but more importantly a prize for the developing countries that of course, need it the most.
Farm To Landfill: The Cost Of Food Waste In America
Time and time again, fancy, high-cost solutions persevere in society. Headlines focus on the newest technology promising to reinvent world systems while simple solutions that can make the greatest impact are brushed aside. Food waste is one of the most prescient issues of our time. This issue often falls through the cracks of collective interest, but through modest intervention, could provide huge returns.
The Food Waste Crisis
In Scotland, 600,000 tonnes of food are thrown away every year. This is food waste. This amount of food, which could feed approximately 1.2 billion poor people, represents almost a third of household waste. In addition to this, at least 4.7 million people in the UK are in food poverty.
Here’s How We Solve Our Food Waste Problem
Food waste is getting a lot of attention lately, and for good reason. No matter how you slice it, the statistics are downright alarming. The world produces 17% more food than it did 30 years ago, yet almost half of it never reaches our bellies.
France is cracking down on food waste
France is cracking down on food waste with a new law banning big supermarkets from destroying unsold food or face fines and even jail sentences.
Starbucks is trying a new initiative to stop wasting so much food
Baristas at every Starbucks in the US collectively trash thousands of sandwiches, yogurt parfaits, and cookies at the end of each day. In March, the coffee chain announced that it would start donating that unsold food to those in need.
This new ‘Seamless for food waste’ lets you buy restaurants’ surplus for around $3
The world wastes an astounding amount of food every year: an estimated 2.7 trillion pounds. That’s a third of the total food we produce — and could be enough to feed 2 billion people. A great deal of this waste originates from cafés and restaurants, which throw out unsold sandwiches, pastries, and produce that are about to expire.
America is one of the largest offenders of food waste in the world
America is one of the largest offenders of food waste in the world, according to a recent survey.
A UK supermarket chain will sell pasta, crisps, and rice for just 10p to reduce food waste
LONDON — A supermarket chain will be the first major retailer to sell food beyond its “best before” dates. The East of England Co-op, which has 125 stores in East Anglia, plans to sell dried and tinned food including rice, crisps, and pasta for just 10p in a bid to reduce food waste.
How one company eliminated food waste: The ‘landfill can no longer be an option.’
Those carrot tops you’ve lopped off are not garbage. Your snapped-off green-bean stems are not scraps. They are what Thomas McQuillan, sustainability director for Baldor, a specialty foods and produce distributor, calls sparcs — “scraps” spelled backward and pronounced like “sparks.” And sparcs, despite popular assumption, are often just as edible as the rest of the fruit or vegetable.
The staggering environmental footprint of all the food that we just throw in the trash
The mass quantities of food Americans waste every year has staggering environmental consequences, according to a study published Wednesday.
Food waste is killing the planet. Restaurants are stepping up. Will you?
Those days of waste-not-want-not are a memory for many of us. The US Department of Agriculture estimates that up to 40 percent of food in this country is wasted, which translates to more than $161 billion worth of food being tossed.
One Grocery Chain Is Removing ‘Best Before’ Stickers in a Dramatic Effort to Reduce Food Waste
One of the largest grocery chains in the U.K. is changing its packaging to tackle food waste. Tesco has announced that it will remove “best before” dates from 70 pre-packaged produce products because people have been throwing away food before it actually goes bad.
Americans Waste About A Pound Of Food A Day, USDA Study Finds
In another heartbreaking finding for sustainability advocates, a recently published study funded by the United States Department of Agriculture found that American consumers waste about one pound of food per day, or 225-290 pounds per year.
French Food Waste Law Changing How Grocery Stores Approach Excess Food
But giving leftover food to charity is no longer just an act of goodwill. It’s a requirement under a 2016 law that bans grocery stores from throwing away edible food. Stores can be fined $4,500 for each infraction.
New Crop of Companies Reaping Profits From Wasted Food
Several start-ups are chasing ways to use food waste to make other edibles. Some are aiming to quickly distribute food that is about to be thrown out. And yet others are working to use every last ounce of ingredients.
Food Waste Busters 