Earth911.com interviews Feeding America’s Liz Baldridge, director of Sustainability and Food Waste Initiatives, and Zuani Villareal, director of communication at Feeding America, to discuss food waste.
Tag: food waste
What Does Ugly Produce’s Newfound Popularity Mean for Food Banks?
Food banks rely on imperfect fruits and vegetables to feed those in need, but what happens when more for-profit companies want to cash in on ugly produce?
Americans Waste About A Pound Of Food A Day, USDA Study Finds
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. This means that roughly 20% of all food put on the plates of Americans is trashed every year, or enough to feed 2 billion extra people annually.
Edmonton chef cooking up a plan to boost food security
Leftovers YEG picks up excess food from restaurants and grocery stores and delivers it to service agencies in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Food made from ‘ugly’ produce could be a beautiful business opportunity
A growing number of manufacturers are meeting consumer demand for mission-based, sustainable and plant-based food by developing products made from “ugly” produce.
How France became a global leader in curbing food waste
France isn’t an obvious frontrunner in food recovery, but new legislation has helped catapult the nation to the top of the 2017 Food Sustainability Index. People in France wasted an average of 234 pounds of food per person annually compared to about 430 pounds in the United States.
Why Food Waste Can Only Remedy—Not Solve—America’s Hunger Problem
Food Tank interviews author and food security expert Andrew Fisher who argues that it’s time to take a deeper look at what the anti-hunger movement is really achieving in the U.S.
How a California organization uses discarded food to help solve hunger
This year, nearly 11.5 million pounds of excess food in Orange County, California, normally headed toward the garbage bin, went instead to help those struggling with food insecurity, thanks to a model developed by the Waste Not OC Coalition and refined by its executive director, Mike Learakos.
America wastes $160 billion in food every year but is too busy to stop
The good news? At least half of us know it’s a problem.
New protocol aims to cut trillion-dollar food waste bill
There is the start of new global mechanism called the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard to map the extent and the reasons for food loss and food waste across the world.
