food waste

Earlier this week, the Consumer Goods Forum launched a CEO-led Coalition of Action on Food Waste. The effort bringing together 14 of the world's largest retailers and manufacturers. The coalition seeks to cut global food loss at the retailer and consumer level in half ...

On Tuesday, the USDA announced the availability of $900,000 for local governments to reduce food waste in landfills. The grants allow local governments to host a Community Compost and Food Waste Reduction pilot project for fiscal year 2020 ...

Annually, the United States puts 52 million tons of food into land fills and leave another 10 million tons on farms for various reasons. That's a lot of food waste. Timothy Childs, founder of a San Francisco company called 'Treasure Eight' has a mission to "power the conversion of food waste in to nutrition ...

It's a topic we've discussed quite a bit here on the Washington Ag Network, the problem of massive food waste in the United States. "Every year American consumers, businesses, and farms spend about 218 billion dollars a year growing, processing, transporting, and disposing of food that's never eaten," said Dr ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration announced they’re partnering with the Food Waste Reduction Alliance.  It’s part of the “Winning on Reducing Food Waste Initiative” launched by the three agencies last year.   The agencies will f...

The Washington state Department of Agriculture is looking at what can be done to reduce food waste in the United States.  According to the WSDA 30% of all food produced goes to the landfill, and the average American household wastes 20% of all food purchased, accounting for roughly $200 per month.  Ka...

The Washington state Department of Agriculture is looking at what can be done to reduce food waste in the United States.  According to the WSDA 30% of all food produced goes to the landfill, and the average American household wastes 20% of all food purchased, accounting for roughly $200 per month.  Ka...

Thursday, the USDA opened registration for its 2020 Agricultural Outlook Forum.  Planned for February 20th through the 21st, the event is the largest annual meeting of USDA.  The 2020 event, themed “The Innovation Imperative: Shaping the Future of Agriculture,” will feature more than 30 sessions.  The topics include ...

Thursday, the USDA opened registration for its 2020 Agricultural Outlook Forum.  Planned for February 20th through the 21st, the event is the largest annual meeting of USDA.  The 2020 event, themed “The Innovation Imperative: Shaping the Future of Agriculture,” will feature more than 30 sessions.  The topics include ...

Last week Central Washington’s Dan Newhouse and Maine’s Chellie Pingree introduced legislation they say will ensure Americans don’t throw out perfectly good food.  They said the bipartisan Food Date Labeling Act, will reduce food waste by standardizing date labels on food products.   Recent studie...