IT'S A SUNNY TUESDAY MORNING when a crowd gathers at the corner of University and Ninth Streets in Berkeley. Armed with ...

The United States generates more food waste than all but two countries. To address this, the federal government set a goal to cut food waste in half by 2030 compared to 2016 levels, to about 164 ...

We’re also doing the right thing for the environment,” says Jill Allen, executive director for Dorothy’s Place. “It’s a ...

In the first three months of 2024, Bon Appétit Management Company (BAMCO) cafes in California donated 65,596 pounds of food. As a food service provider for more than a thousand universities and ...

ENCINITAS, Calif. — Mimicking nature, employees at the Solana Center for Environmental Innovation turn food waste into nutrient-rich organic material. Through their Food Cycle composting program, ...

A California law adopted in 2016 mandated a gradual increase in the amount of organic waste that must be diverted away from landfills to sites where it could be treated and composted, thus reducing ...

The average US household loses $3,000 a year to wasted food. These simple actions can help your wallet and the planet.

Experts tell Sentient that the problem persists because political follow-through is limited, climate action still focuses heavily on energy and transportation and ultimately, food waste itself is ...

When food waste ends up in landfills, it produces lots of planet-warming methane emissions. To curb this, states across the country have been enacting bans to keep food waste out of the trash. But ...

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Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, M&Ms and other items made with certain synthetic food dyes will be expelled from California public schools, charter schools and state special schools under a bill signed into law ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 660 into law last week, which makes the state the first in the nation to ban inconsistent but common labels on packaged foods. AB 660, proposed by ...