My High School Throws Out a Stupid Amount of Food. What Can I Do?

Source: grist.org Published: October 26, 2017 Grist / Image Source / Getty Images By Eve Andrews The questions that land in the Ask Umbra inbox are, by turns, incredibly vague, hyper-specific, heartily baffling, and genuinely touching. (Send more of them!) But there...

Anthony Bourdain Tackles Food Waste in New Documentary

Source: ecowatch.com Published: October 26, 2017 Food Tank By Eva Perroni A new documentary from chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain, WASTED! The Story of Food Waste explores both the problem of food waste in the U.S. and possible solutions from around...

How a Free Grocery Store Is Cutting Food Waste—and Hunger

Source: yesmagazine.org Published: September 12, 2017 Food items redistributed by The Free Store include salads, sandwiches, pies, rice meals, and other pastries. All photos by Benjamin Johnson. Each weeknight, The Free Store redistributes up to 1,500 surplus...

Montreal Supermarket Opens Huge Organic Rooftop Garden

Source: treehugger.com Published: August 18, 2017 © Tact Conseil (used with permission) — Francis, Richard, and Daniel Duchemin, storeowners, sit in their new rooftop garden By Katherine Martinko Talk about slashing food miles; ‘fresh from the roof’ is as local as it...

Resort Reduces Rubbish Rates with Food Digesters

Source: environmentalleader.com Published: August 18, 2017 By Jennifer Nastu Two anaerobic food digesters will reduce trash bills for the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, PA. By using the digesters to break down organic trash, the casino will reduce its...

New Technology Quickly Turns Food Waste into Fuel

Source: treehugger.com Published: June 22, 2017 CC BY 2.0 Nick Saltmarsh By Megan Treacy A new technique for turning food waste into a source of energy uses a two step process that extracts all of the energy from the waste and does so quickly. Researchers at Cornell...

Our Mission to Reduce Food Waste

Source: blog.generalmills.com Published: November 21, 2016 By Jerry Lynch You may have noticed that General Mills has been talking a lot about food waste lately. As a global food company, it’s imperative to take thoughtful action to combat food waste and we are...

Packaging Food with Food to Reduce Waste

Source: nytimes.com Published: May 30, 2017 The design company Ecovative makes a variety of packaging materials using mycelium fungus. Credit: Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times By Stephanie Strom For the environmentally conscious eater, they are among the most...

Turning Tomato Peels and Eggshells into Tires

Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: March 15, 2017 Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a technology for incorporating food waste into rubber. (Kenneth Chamberlain, courtesy of Ohio State University) By Randy Rieland Scientists at Ohio State...