While so much of the world remains in the clutches of poverty, it seems silly than that a select few countries could produce not only enough food to eat, but to throw in the garbage at the end of the…
A new Quebec program brings food banks and supermarkets together to fight hunger and food waste
BY: ELIJAH BASSETT Food insecurity is a major problem around the world, and although it is much worse in impoverished countries, even places like the United States and Canada have unacceptable amounts of people going hungry. For example, Food Banks…
Benefits of tomato: new vehicle tire rubber made with tomato and egg
BY: DUSTIN BATTY An innovative research team at The Ohio State University decided to use food waste to make car tires and the newly created rubber outperforms normal petroleum-based tires. According to an OSU article on the experimental product, most…
Overeating is one of the biggest contributors to food waste
BY: DUSTIN BATTY It is a well-known fact that people have a tendency to waste food. A recent study covered in a Science Daily article found that around fifty percent of all harvested crops—nearly “2.1 billion tonnes” of food—are lost…
Really chill ways to do your part for the planet in 2017
BY RHIANN MOORE Although little gestures often seem futile when people in power can’t be bothered to do their part, they can actually make a huge difference in maintaining the environment and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Here are some basic…
This smart new supermarket exclusively sells expired and discarded food at a fraction of the price
BY: ALEX BROWN A new grocery store that just opened in Copenhagen is challenging arbitrary expiration dates and unnecessary food waste to help curb hunger and exorbitant grocery store prices. The company, WeFood, opened last month under the belief that…
This service is saving ‘ugly’ produce by delivering it to your door for a fraction of the price
BY: CAROLINE ROLF The base of the squash is a little too round and the sweet potato has a root twice its length – these veggies don’t even come close to matching our standards of beauty. Despite the fact that…
Repealing the pigswill ban could radically reduce the EU’s eco-footprint
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Thirteen years ago, people all across the European Union could scrape their plates into a bin and know that their leftovers wouldn’t end up in a landfill. That waste would make its way to local farmers,…
This company invented a system that converts food waste into energy
BY: KATE SLOAN In this age of climate change, pollution and food crises, there’s a growing desperation to find working solutions. But a Seattle-based company thinks their new invention “changes everything.” Impact Bioenergy is a team of designers, engineers and…
This 20 year old created an app that’s already saved thousands of pounds of food waste.
BY: ADRIAN SMITH As a high school freshman, Maria Rose Belding found it difficult to watch the director of the local soup pantry she volunteered at in Iowa struggle to find a home for the 10,000 boxes of macaroni and…
American universities are using hilariously simple-yet-effective ways of eliminating food waste
BY: SWIKAR OLI A study out of University of Michigan says that just in 2010, Americans generated 35 million tons of food waste–97 per cent of which gets thrown away–making food waste “the single largest component of the municipal waste stream…
This UK food waste infographic represents an apocalypse of flaming socio-environmental values
It’s easy to point the finger of food-waste at restaurants and big businesses, but the reality is that 50% of the total discarded food in the UK can be found in the garbage cans of peoples’ homes. This equates to…
This UK grocery store saves £140,000 per year by being powered entirely on food waste
BY: LAURA ROJAS Founded in 1869, Sainsbury’s in the UK is a large-scale grocery store chain that has vowed to do away with conventional business practices in exchange for more sustainable ideas. In 2011, their Hyde store in Kent became…
UK’s largest supermarket chain “Tesco” vows to give away all left over food to empty stomachs
BY: ZOE MELNYK Following close in France’s footsteps, the largest UK grocery store chain, Tesco, recently decided to donate any edible leftover food to charity instead of throwing it away to rot in a landfill. The decision came from the…
Meet the chef whose restaurant uses discarded food to feed the homeless instead of landfills
BY: MATTHEW CHIN One third of the food produced in the world is wasted, amounting to approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of waste stuffing landfills every year. In addition, 13.5 per cent—or 805 million people in the world—don’t have enough food and…