Food Waste

Mackinac DPW sells green compost bags at a cheaper rate than the black bags for trash. (Photo credit: Paige Hodder)

This Car-Free Michigan Island Is Leading on Composting

By Paige Hodder

October 23, 2023

The isolated, vehicle-free Great Lakes community has a lot to teach other communities about managing food waste.

Supermarket Food Waste Is a Big Problem. Are Strategic Price Cuts the Solution?

By Katie Rodriguez

September 11, 2023

avocados are on sale to prevent food waste using dynamic pricing at a supermarket

These Manure Digesters Incorporate Food Scraps. Does That Make Them Better?

August 28, 2023

A view of Longview farm. The tank in the foreground stores the fertilizer produced by the co-digester. (Photo credit: Meg Wilcox)

Our Summer 2023 Food and Farming Book Guide

By The Civil Eats Editors

June 21, 2023

Tamar Adler Teaches Home Cooks to Turn Food Waste Into Dinner

By Hannah Wallace

June 6, 2023

Author Tamar Adler and the cover of her new book, The Everlasting Meal Cookbook, about reducing food waste while cooking delicious food. (Author photo credit: Aaron Stern)

Can This Chicken Company Solve America’s Food Waste Problem?

November 30, 2022

a freshly roasted chicken from do good foods, in theory

This Group Has Rerouted 250 Million Pounds of Food From Landfills to Feed People in Need

By Lindsey Margaret Allen

August 17, 2022

Felipe Maldonado, a Wholesale Recovery Program Driver with Food Forward, loads a pallet of recovered food at the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market. (Photo credit: Vanessa Bly)

The Field Report: In DC, Lawmakers Push ‘Common Sense’ Food Waste Solution

July 13, 2022

Food donations are piled up on a table in the wake of a natural disaster.

A New California Law Will Create a Lot More Compost—but Will it Make it to Farmland?

By Gosia Wozniacka

March 2, 2022

A pile of compost in the farm field at Shone Farm, a teaching farm at Sonoma State University in California. (Photo by Emma K. Morris)

Stopping Food Waste Before It Starts Is Key to Reaching Climate Goals

January 5, 2022

tray full of finished paper dinner plates at a local seafood shack

How I Changed My Relationship to Grocery Shopping—and My Financial Future

By Gosia Wozniacka

November 30, 2021

Shopping at the Birch Community Services co-op in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Gosia Wozniacka)

A Huge New Chicken CAFO in West Virginia Has Stoked Community Resistance

April 7, 2021

inside a large chicken barn or cafo

As Food Scrap Collection Peaks, NYC Community Compost Sites Face Evictions

March 3, 2021

Food scraps at the Lower East Side Ecology Center's compost yard.

The New York Farmers Responding to Food Insecurity

December 8, 2020

The Messmer family: from left Dave, Pete, Suzanne, and Steve.. Dave said “The pandemic made people realize the inherent weaknesses of the supply chain, and they're going to continue to see the threats: the wildfires, the droughts, all these things that that could cause disruption,” He continued, “The answer is buying local. If you just keep buying local, you don't have to worry about shipping, trucking, all that stuff. You're supporting your local farms who can basically survive more sustainably.”

How the Pandemic is Affecting Home Food Waste

By Bridget Shirvell

May 15, 2020

A hand putting food waste into a compost bin.

The Farm to Food Bank Movement Aims to Rescue Small-Scale Farming and Feed the Hungry

May 14, 2020

Bagging lettuce from local small farms at the Vermont Food Bank

A New Bill Aims to Fix Food Waste in Schools

January 16, 2020

School Food Waste photo by G Witteveen on Flickr.

There’s a Blueprint to Halve the Food Waste Fiasco

By Katie Flanagan

September 6, 2019

woman throwing food away into the compost bin making food waste

Study Finds Farm-Level Food Waste is Much Worse Than We Thought

By Gosia Wozniacka

August 20, 2019

farm food waste of tomatoes rotting in the field. Photo CC-licensed by Steve Corey on Flickr.

A New Produce Warehouse in Los Angeles Will Prevent Millions of Pounds of Food Waste

By Nadra Nittle

June 27, 2019

Recovering potatoes for Food Forward (Photo © Eron Rauch)

Where Do Food Banks Fit in to the Fight for a Green New Deal?

By Maggie Dickinson and Joshua Lohnes

May 16, 2019

people standing in line for food

One of the Nation’s Oldest Food Banks Adds Culinary Education to its Offerings

By Donna Jackel

January 24, 2019

Jehmel Alexander working in the Foodlink kitchen.

Feeding the World Without Destroying It

January 10, 2019

eric holt-gimenez and the cover of his new book, can we feed the world without destroying it

Already a Climate Change Leader, California Takes on Food Waste

By Chris Richard

December 10, 2018

Delivering food to a commercial compost facility. Photo CC-licensed by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

The Hot Cereal Company Using Buy-One-Give-One to Fight Food Insecurity

October 12, 2018

food bank worker moving a pallet of food donations