Tag: food waste
Recycling food waste could slash methane emissions and reshape the global...
New research shows that composting, anaerobic digestion, and refeeding food waste can significantly cut greenhouse gases and spare vital resources across the U.S., China, and the EU.
Revolutionizing cold chains: New study reveals potential to slash global food...
A University of Michigan study highlights the transformative impact of fully refrigerated food supply chains on global food waste and greenhouse gas emissions.
New study finds $1 trillion worth of food waste generated per...
The study is a global estimate on food waste at retail and consumer levels and helps to provide "guidance for countries on improving data collection and suggests best practices in moving from measuring to reducing food waste."
Methane emissions from food waste alarmingly accelerate climate crisis
As EPA reports highlight the staggering methane emissions from food waste, the U.S. grapples with an overlooked environmental hazard.
About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the...
And when food goes bad, the land, labor, water, chemicals and energy that went into producing, processing, transporting, storing and preparing it are wasted too.
EPA releases first-of-its-kind report on food waste
Despite pledging to cut food loss and waste in half by 2030, the U.S. is far from reaching its goal.
Get dumped food to the hungry
In America, the so-called wealthiest nation on earth, tens of millions go hungry while food is dumped because no one in government can get it together to get it to them.
Global food waste higher than previously estimated, new study reveals
Global food waste is a much bigger problem than previously thought. A new study confirmed that people waste more than twice as...
A 10-step plan for the world to cut food loss and...
Nearly a third of all food produced in the world goes uneaten each year, yet 1 in 9 people is undernourished.
Reducing food waste can protect our health, as well as our...
Reducing food waste can address two major problems facing humanity today: cost of food waste and the impact on the health of our people and our planet.
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UN inquiry says Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza
A new UN Commission report details more than 20,000 children killed, tens of thousands injured, attacks on hospitals and schools, and evidence that Palestinian children were treated not as collateral damage, but as targets.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."