1. Make a plan The first step in reducing food waste in your household is to assess what you have in your refrigerator, freezer and pantry to avoid buying food you already have, says Rust. After ...

You may perceive household members who let food spoil as merely being too busy to take food waste into account, but perhaps, for this Earth Day 2025, a reckoning is due.

To make sure your fridge and freezer are keeping your food as fresh as possible, check the temperature settings. Your fridge should be between 3 and 5 degrees, and your freezer about -18 degrees.

It sounds incredible but estimates show that almost one billion meals go waste daily. A UNEP report reveals that 20% of this food is simply thrown away. And, approximately one-third of the food ...

Whether it’s stems and skins or past-their-prime protein and produce, you’re probably throwing a lot of perfectly good food in the trash. Such waste doesn’t come cheap. The average American ...

Wasted food, though, is a year-round phenomenon. Annually, Americans toss out about two-fifths of their food; uneaten food costs families around $1,500.

Thanksgiving is about giving thanks. So you’d think we’d show gratitude for spreads of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and pies by not throwing the food away. But somehow the equivalent of ...

Australians waste around 7.68 million tonnes of food a year. This costs the economy an estimated A$36.6 billion and households up to $2,500 annually. Much of this food is wasted at home. So while ...

How bad is food waste on Thanksgiving About 200 million pounds of turkey are thrown out over the Thanksgiving holiday week, according to estimates from the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Climate These states tried, and failed, to cut food waste. One succeeded. Researchers studied the effect of five laws requiring supermarkets and restaurants to reduce waste, part of a broader ...

When it comes to consumer food waste, the numbers can be staggering, but consider this: More than one-third of “all available food goes uneaten through loss or waste” in the United States ...