The United States generates more food waste than all but two countries. To address this, the federal government set a goal to cut food waste in half by 2030 compared to 2016 levels, to about 164 ...
People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...
By embracing a diversified infrastructure strategy—one that combines centralized facilities with distributed solutions—the ...
Ohio State researchers are doing anything but wasting their time. A new study published by researchers at the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences finds profitable and sustainable ...
The data shows increased composting and anaerobic digestion in 2024, though retailers’ still wasted $26.9 billion worth of ...
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Three faculty members at Virginia Tech received a $633,551 grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to fund a four-year research project on the economics of food loss and waste. ...
An Iowa Department of Natural Resources study on food waste in the state found that Iowans on average, throw away 200 pounds of food each year.