UNEP’s Inger Andersen calls for urgent global action to curb food waste, cut methane emissions, and protect resources to secure a resilient zero‑waste future.

The world is facing a growing waste challenge linked to unsustainable production and consumption, with humanity generating up to 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste each year. This year’s ...

Studies show that Californians are doing a trashy job of reducing their waste, with an estimated 6 pounds disposed per person every day. That’s about 2,200 pounds of garbage per year. While our waste ...

IT’S lunch break at a busy fast-food restaurant. You are seated in the corner, glancing at the surroundings. On the table ...

AI-driven food waste technology from Nestlé and Zest is paving the way for industry-wide transformation, showing how ...

The IT Management major saw an opportunity to help reduce the environmental impact of electronic waste, provide useful ...

Kay Masterson has always wanted to make her Boston-area restaurant more sustainable, partnering with an organic farm to get some vegetables close by and offering reusable containers for customers’ ...

With 430 million tons of plastic waste generated annually and less than 10% of it recycled, the plastic crisis is out of control. Thankfully, HIRO Technologies is creating a new path forward, powered ...

Analyst Insight: AI is emerging as a powerful tool for businesses to reduce waste in their supply chains. It can help optimize processes, predict demand more accurately, and make data-driven decisions ...

At a New Hampshire facility, agricultural plastics are compacted together. Photo courtesy Guy Crosby/CNS Camryn Woods is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s ...

The issue of waste in healthcare is garnering more attention than ever right now, and for good reason. Two bullet points illustrate the scope of our industry’s challenges: Let’s imagine, though, that ...

The Beer Snake—that magnificent slinky plastic stretch of hundreds of emptied beer cups stacked up by golf fans at the 16th party hole at the WM Phoenix Open—might be viewed as the poster child for ...