Food Waste

Fight to curb food waste increasingly turns to science

Experts say growing awareness of food waste and its incredible cost — both in dollars and in environmental impact — has led to an uptick in efforts to mitigate it

A fifth of all food produced in 2019 was wasted, better data needed to tackle food waste: UN report

Food waste in homes isn't limited to higher income countries such as the US and Britain, the report said.

Millions of cockroaches are helping China process the country's food waste

Cockroaches could help get rid of hills of food scraps, providing nutritious food for livestock.

Watch: How maggots are solving China’s food waste problem

It may not be a pretty sight, but the gluttonous maggots could help China eat away something far uglier: the country's mountain of food waste.

Ohio State University researchers use food waste to make superior tyres

Tyres of the future could come from the farm as much as the factory as researchers have found a way to turn food waste into sustainable rubber.