Food Waste

Food Waste

6 Ways to Reduce Food Waste in Restaurants and Businesses

6 Ways to Reduce Food Waste in Restaurants and Businesses

When running a food service business, generating profits relies on cutting excesses. Therefore, any technique that can trim costs will help the bottom line, including different ways to reduce food waste.

Using artificial intelligence to fight food waste

Using artificial intelligence to fight food waste

Food waste is a growing, worldwide problem. The necessity to throw out food that has expired or gone bad is not only bad for the bottom line but also deprives the poor of much-needed sustenance.

7 Easy Steps for a Successful Restaurant Recycling Program

7 Easy Steps for a Successful Restaurant Recycling Program

From leftover food to old kitchen supplies and packaging, the food industry produces a lot of waste. Restaurants, fast-food chains, and bars will save considerable amounts of waste disposal costs if they focus on reducing the amount of food they waste and increasing their recycling.

4 Food Companies Creating Products From Recycled Foods

4 Food Companies Creating Products From Recycled Foods

With the growing problem of food waste and how to reduce it, many companies are using food waste to make sustainable food products. Upcycled food is food that would go to landfills.

Dole is turning food waste into packaging

Dole is turning food waste into packaging

The Dole Company is one of the biggest growers of bananas and pineapples on the planet. However, it is also one of the biggest generators of food waste.

New York City Startup Plans to Turn Food Waste Into Fresh Fertilizer

New York City Startup Plans to Turn Food Waste Into Fresh Fertilizer

The idea of using food waste as fertilizer is not new by any stretch of the imagination. People have been composting for centuries, and it's been one of the ways we introduce nutrients back into the soil.

How Your Business Can Minimize Food Waste

How Your Business Can Minimize Food Waste

Prior to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, concerns were already mounting over the amount of food waste produced by the United States. With the continuing spread of the virus, concerns over food security are ongoing.

Vermont outlaws food waste

Vermont outlaws food waste

As Fast Company reports, Vermont has become the first state to "ban" food waste. Henceforth, residents and businesses will be required to put things like apple cores, potato peelings, and any spoiled food into separate bins that will be picked up periodically from the curb.

How College Campuses Across America are Reducing Food Waste

How College Campuses Across America are Reducing Food Waste

The need for swift action to adapt to climate change is undeniable - day after day, experts warn of the devastating effects that rising temperatures across the globe are having on the world oceans,the weather, and the food security of millions of people. To add to the toll to the environment, a third of the world's food production goes to waste, while "hundreds of millions" go hungry.

Could Shipping Container Farms Grow Local, and Avoid Waste?

Could Shipping Container Farms Grow Local, and Avoid Waste?

We all need to eat, but there is a prodigious amount of waste associated with traditional farming. From the massive amount of land and water it uses, to the pesticides it requires, to harvesting and transporting, it's not exactly what someone would call efficient.