The US wants to cut food waste in half. ... In updating its guidance, the EPA published a food waste hierarchy — which shows the best way to reduce food waste is to prevent it.

A new report, "Supermarkets Fail to Make the Grade in Reducing Food Waste," scores the 10 largest grocery stores on how they handle food waste. No store got an A, but Walmart got a B.

There is a hierarchy for how to prioritize food waste. It's put out by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA says the initial goal is to reduce waste up front.

The Environmental Protection Agency said the same in its Food Recovery Hierarchy. The next best thing would be for animals to eat it, Holmes said. Pigs, for example, says the website.

The Drexel Food Lab has been awarded an EPA grant for almost $740,000 to develop educational videos for home cooks focused on preventing and minimizing food waste, and measure their impact.

The United States is nowhere near its goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030, according to new analysis from the University of California, Davis. In September 2015, the U.S. set an ambitious ...