Food waste

One group of New Jersey students won a national competition with a project aiming to combat climate change and food waste by creating their own soap using a sustainable ingredient from bugs. This team of over 30 high school students from the town of Princeton decided to swap out palm oil, a popular element in mass-produced goods, for an unorthodox…

40% of the food produced in the United States is never consumed, resulting in huge quantities of edible food discarded in landfills. Here are five tips to reduce your own food waste, cut down on grocery spending, and cook more conscientiously.

What 2 R’s come before recycling? Reducing and reusing! Composting your coffee grounds, egg shells and more are one way to reuse things that you might have thrown away otherwise. Lauren Clarke from Dallas-based Turn Compost explains what you need to know to get started composting today.

Tossing leftovers isn’t just wasting food. Experts say it’s destroying the planet. But as much as the problem is massive, fixing it can be simple.

Food waste is making climate change worse. That’s why NBCLX storyteller Bianca Graulau challenged herself to not waste any food for a week. She also went dumpster diving with Rob Greenfield, who has gone months eating exclusively from the food he finds in garbage bins.