The average American creates 4.3 pounds of trash per day. That’s 1,569 pounds a year. With numbers like this, it’s no wonder our landfills are overflowing and our planet is suffering. One …
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…
After these horrendous videos surfaced, France passes bill requiring cameras in all slaughterhouses
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE France is having some major issues with animal rights. In the past couple of years there have been countless pieces of evidence supporting extreme cases of abuse against animals m…
How supermarkets trick us into buying more than we really need
By: JACK M. Gone is the day when a grocery store was a place where you’d just go to pick up your weekly groceries. Times have changed, and today’s supermarkets use every trick in the book to ge…
New grocery store lets you buy health food for the price of fast-food
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Follow Rob on Instagram Imagine Whole Foods at dollar-store prices—a new company called Daily Table is shifting the power back to people of lower income, so they too have the option of…
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 20…