May 3, 2019
Stories tagged "food waste"
April 25, 2019
Sustainability Begins At Home
We hope that ODP’s special Earth Week’s content, with newsmaking interviews and an extra dose of “What You Can Do” ideas helped to inspire you to find new ways to conserve the planet. As our final post for the week, we wanted to share with you...April 24, 2019
Changing our mentality around food waste
Food waste is not only a terrible thing when 15 million U.S. households are food insecure but the one-third of our food supply that we waste is a major contributor to climate change. Yesterday was Stop Foodwaste Day and while most people likely they don’t think...April 10, 2019
One Heartwarming Thing From The Heartland
Food waste is a huge drain on the environment. CBS News reported on an innovative program in a school district in Elkhart, Indiana that is working with a local non-profit to collect leftover food from school cafeterias and use it to make meals for needy school...January 9, 2019
Tackling food waste, one fish chip at a time
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, every year, consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food (222 million tons) as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tons). The amount of food lost or wasted every year...April 17, 2018