One obvious change is buying less. Christmas shopping encourages excess, but weighing potatoes per person and planning ...

Buy-one-get-one-free deals and other discounts promoted by supermarkets exacerbate the amount of food waste generated in the UK, according to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME). However, ...

Close to 14 million people experience food insecurity in Britain every day. Four million are just children. At the same time, we waste more than three million tons of food every year: that’s an area ...

A third of all food produced is lost or wasted. Here are some strategies to waste less food in your home. Food waste isn’t the most exciting topic. But listen up — it’s probably costing you, and our ...

Smart tech from startup Winnow has already helped Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall restaurant reduce waste by a third One third of all food produced for human consumption isn’t eaten, and the hospitality ...

Apps have helped slash the amount of food surplus going to waste. But do they really offer a ‘win-win-win’, or are they just shifting the problem to consumers? The chosen metric of their mission is ...

In a country grappling with spiralling living costs, a rising tide of hunger, and families left counting pennies, you’d think that perfectly edible food would never be wasted. Yet, the UK is a nation ...

The UK Government has failed to meet its target on household food waste. Statistics from the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) show household food waste in the UK increased 4.4 per cent ...

A third of all food produced worldwide is never eaten. But how easy is it to reduce our food waste? Two students have been finding out. "That's not a very pleasant smell," says Loughborough University ...

The country's ubiquitous convenience stores throw out huge amounts of edible food. In Tokyo, Rachel Nuwer meets the campaigners trying to change that. Riko Morinaga, a recent high school graduate in ...