food waste

These Charts Show Which Foods Are Most Likely To Be Wasted

Wasting food is a problem all over the world, but are all kinds of foods equally likely to be wasted? The answer is no. Some foods are especially prone to it, while others are likely to be used much more carefully. Here are the world’s most wasted common foods in helpful chart form. At the…

What Wasted Food Looks Like All Over The World

Food waste is a problem all over the world, but how it happens — and what that looks like — changes wildly across country borders. Top image: A peek inside a dumpster by Taz, who notes “I so wanted to pull those salmon spines out of there, take them home and make stock.” We agree.…

Insects In New York City Eat An Astounding Amount of Our Food Waste

A new study examines how various insects act as tiny trash disposals in New York City’s public spaces. Incredibly, these bugs eat thousands of kilograms of our waste each year. New York is one of many cities whose mythical allure claims that the streets are paved with gold. Sadly, you are more likely to be…

Could we feed an extra 3 billion people right now? A new study takes a comprehensive look at where our agricultural resources go and concludes that by changing some global farming practices, including raising fewer cattle and cutting crop waste, we could be feeding billions more a year. Image: Topsoil runoff during a storm /…

Should we get rid of expiration dates? A new proposal set to go before the agricultural ministers of the EU next week says this would reduce food waste. Reuters got a look at the proposal, which points out that almost half of the food on grocery shelves is tossed out, unused.

Americans waste over 140 trillion calories of food a year

For the first time, scientists have generated a calorie-count for just how much food we waste in a year, and it is an insanely high amount: over 141 trillion calories, almost a full third of the total food calories produced in a year. You can parse out that calorie count data a lot of ways:…

How Much Food Do We Waste Every Year?

We’re wasteful people. Maybe not you and maybe not me but definitely “we”. Some of us try to live as consciously as possible but it hardly matters when the rest of us are inconsiderate and lazy. The United States wastes about $165 billion in food every year. Half of the food produced in the US…