A team led by PhD student Tianzheng Liu has developed a method to convert food waste into biodegradable plastic, a breakthrough with potential for large-scale environmental impact. The team fed ...

More than 1 billion meals are wasted across the world each day while nearly 800 million people go hungry, a United Nations report has found.

Chicken waste feeds the fish which, in turn, supply plants with vital nutrition. Introducing Burkina Faso’s solar-powered pyramid agriculture, AGRI Pyramide.

State bans on commercial food waste have been largely ineffective, study finds Much of the food supply in the U.S. goes uneaten, which contributes to climate change. Some states have tried to cut ...

The Double Pyramid is an innovative way of portraying how the ecological footprints of our food compare to their nutritional value.

A new pyramid has appeared in the Egyptian desert. But instead of blocks of limestone, the structure is made entirely out of waste plastic. The installation, conceived by Australian zero-waste ...

America has a food waste problem: Rotten tomatoes and pizza boxes end up in trash dumps and produce a potent planet-heating gas called methane. Massachusetts has a fix: A state regulation requires ...

Worldwide, food waste accounts for 8 to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, at least double that of emissions from aviation.

Massachusetts was among the first five states to pass regulations aimed at keeping food waste out of landfills and incinerators. According to new research in the journal Science, it's the only ...