Springfield, Mass., Nov. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Americans throw out a staggering 120 billion pounds of food each year—that’s 325 pounds per person, totaling an estimated 40% of the nation’s food ...

Packaging plays a complex role in food waste, serving both to prevent and inadvertently create it. While packaging can extend shelf life, protect products, and help consumers manage portions, poor ...

As global environmental concerns like greenhouse gas emissions, plastic pollution, and soil degradation continue to intensify, innovators are stepping up to address these challenges head-on. Better ...

Packaging waste is usually discussed in environmental terms, and rightly so. But for Irish food companies, waste is also a ...

Food insecurity is one of humanity’s most pressing challenges, impacting more than two billion people worldwide. Paradoxically, as so many suffer from lack of access to food, more than 30 per cent of ...

Food waste has long been reviled as an immoral, largely preventable feature of our consumer society. Meanwhile, the single-use plastic packaging used to reduce food wastage poses a more insidious ...

American households are the largest contributor to food waste in the nation, representing 40% of the staggering 120 billion pounds of food wasted each year. New research from the Michigan State ...

It’s become increasingly difficult to ignore the impact waste and carbon emissions are having on the climate, from changing weather patterns to rising sea levels. While many countries across the globe ...

A packet is emptied, a box flattened, a cup discarded. From the consumer’s point of view, packaging waste disappears the moment it enters a bin. For businesses, that moment often marks the end of ...