food waste

Food waste is estimated to be between 30 and 40 percent of the country’s food supply. News4’s Tommy McFly reports this week a half dozen restaurants are cooking up delicious dishes to bring awareness and promote food recovery.

What 2 R’s come before recycling? Reducing and reusing! Composting your coffee grounds, egg shells and more are one way to reuse things that you might have thrown away otherwise. Lauren Clarke from Dallas-based Turn Compost explains what you need to know to get started composting today.

Tossing leftovers isn’t just wasting food. Experts say it’s destroying the planet. But as much as the problem is massive, fixing it can be simple.

Rotting food in landfills releases greenhouse gases. Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper explains how composting reduces greenhouse gases from food waste.

Food waste is a big problem. It’s the largest single item going into landfills. Amelia Draper shares how Storm Team4 meteorologists are putting their Thanksgiving leftovers to work.

Are your fruits and veggies looking a little lackluster? News4’s Melissa Mollet talks to Rachael Jackson, the D.C.-area founder of eatortoss.com about how to stretch your food budget while staying safe.

Food waste is making climate change worse. That’s why NBCLX storyteller Bianca Graulau challenged herself to not waste any food for a week. She also went dumpster diving with Rob Greenfield, who has gone months eating exclusively from the food he finds in garbage bins.

The Golden Globes will serve a plant-based menu for its 77th annual awards show. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Thursday that the awards show known as the “party of the year” will serve a meatless meal at Sunday’s ceremony. The organization wants the initiative to raise environmental awareness about food consumption and waste. HFPA president Lorenzo Soria says the...

One thing you can do to help our planet is reduce food waste. Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper has four simple tips.

A lot of food providers and caterers end events with pounds of food leftover. Atlanta-based Goodr, which launched in D.C. in April, makes it easy to bring that food to those who need it most.

New app Goodr closes the gap between food providers with leftovers and nonprofits looking to feed the hungry, and it does so while paying its drivers a living wage. The app launched in D.C. on April 3.

In fact, when it comes to food waste, consumers are frequently the ones doing the least in dealing with the problem, costing not just the environment but their own wallets in the process. Here are some companies looking to to solve this issue.

Authorities say a worker has died after falling into a vat of oil at a facility near Walt Disney World.

Sedgewick and some of her neighbors testified before the D.C. Council on Wednesday for a new law that would force restaurants and other businesses to tightly contain grease and food waste, or face steep fines and government-forced cleanups.

The waterways surrounding New York City are a soup of plastic, ranging from discarded takeout containers down to tiny beads that end up in the food supply, according to a new report by an environmental group.