Tag: food waste
The Hidden Cost Of Christmas: Budget And Environmental Pain
While many people look forward to Christmas and the end-of-year holiday period, consumerism habits are costing the planet, our budgets and our time. The...
Starbucks, And Many Other Places, Begin Donating Unsold Food
It's about time! It is highly encouraging to see more and more businesses donating their unsold food to charities that are feeding the hungry....
A New “Road Map” To Preventing Food Waste
In the United States, food waste is a gargantuan issue. Individuals and businesses throw away up to 40 percent of the food we produce...
3 Environmental Innovations That Give Us Hope For The Planet
Lately, there has been a flood of bad news concerning the environment. Landfill waste is rising, the pollution of our air and waterways continues,...
New York to Divert 180,000 Tons of Food Waste from Landfills...
We all do it: When dinner’s over someone invariably has left scraps on their plate. Most of us simply scrape those scraps into the...
Keep Food From Going to Waste By Juicing, Baking and Making...
Nearly all of us have been guilty of it at least once in our lives, and probably much more often: throwing out leftovers, or...
Why One Third of All Food Produced in the World is...
A report compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and released last September by the United Nations estimates that about 1.3 billion tons...
How to Avoid Food Waste in Your Home
You’ve probably been guilty of it…throwing away a package of this or a box of that because you’re approaching that all-important “sell by” date....