Keeping a food waste diary can help you figure out what doesn't get eaten and why so you can adjust your shopping, cooking, and eating habits to reduce this waste to a minimum.

Food gets wasted at every point in the system. It happens on farms, at factories, in grocery stores and at restaurants. But as we reported in our food waste explainer, the biggest share of wasted food ...

Getting ‘scrappy’ with food waste could save families more than $1,000 a year By . Karla Walsh. Updated Jun 9, 2025, 2:29 PM ET. PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2025, 1:29 PM ET.

Food waste generates eight to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. If that were a country, it would rank third in the world, behind only China and the US.

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The report also said food waste is not just a “rich world” phenomenon. The amount of food wasted in high- and middle-income countries differed by just 7 kilograms (15 pounds) per person each year.

In the UK alone, 1.5 million tonnes of organic waste are created from the production of food, such as meat, diary, fruit and brewing products. New waste-to-protein technologies therefore offer ...

Food waste is not just an issue during the Christmas period. Even after the chocolate has been scoffed and our bellies are filled with mulled wine, scraps will still be left on plates and emptied ...

Food is squandered at many points along the chain, but most waste happens at home. Household food waste totals 631 million tonnes, 60 per cent of the total food lost; 290 million tonnes is wasted ...

Food waste that rots in a landfill generates methane gas, second only to carbon dioxide as a factor in climate warming. Winson Wong, another co-founder of Afterlife Ag, ... Dear Diary: I was ...