food waste

Food waste recycling is going to become a way of life in California. It’s just taking a while to get off the ground in places like Chula Vista, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little.

Food waste recycling is going to become a way of life in California. It’s just taking a while to get off the ground in places like Chula Vista. “Food waste counts for about 27% of what people throw out every year,” said Victor Sanchez. That food waste ends up in landfills. “What happens?” asked Sanchez. “Gases get released. We’re...

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.

All the leftover wasted food from your New Year’s Eve party can be scraped into your yard waste container if you live in Chula Vista and already have the green container. Otherwise, you may have to wait before adhering to a new California law requiring most people to discard excess food and scraps into green waste bins instead of...

The nation’s largest mandatory residential food-waste recycling program is set to take effect in California in January.

Organizations are opening a world of produce for food-insecure families across Southern California.

Summer’s fresh fruits and vegetables are available now, and maybe you’re looking for a way to keep those garden-fresh flavors longer. As Consumer Reports explains, a vacuum sealer can extend freshness and save you money when you’re freezing food.

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.

NBC 7’s Consumer Bob has more on how your family can make changes in the kitchen to reduce food waste.

Now that we’re limiting trips to the grocery store and food deliveries can be few and far between, managing the food we already have is more important than ever.

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.

The Golden Globes will serve a plant-based menu for its 77th annual awards show. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Thursday that the awards show known as the “party of the year” will serve a meatless meal at Sunday’s ceremony. The organization wants the initiative to raise environmental awareness about food consumption and waste. HFPA president Lorenzo Soria says the...

Five “good news” stories from this week include puppies graduating and becoming service dogs, a woman turning 109 and ‘graduating’ hospice twice, and a new app that creates a virtual food bank.

It’s getting tougher and tougher for college students to make ends meet while also trying to get good grades, so UC San Diego launched a new app feature it hopes will help keep students’ stomachs full.

Authorities say a worker has died after falling into a vat of oil at a facility near Walt Disney World.

A San Diego distillery is using discarded bread products to make vodka and fight food waste.

Hundreds of volunteers a year are picking thousands of pounds of fruit and sending it to the people who need it most in San Diego.

The waterways surrounding New York City are a soup of plastic, ranging from discarded takeout containers down to tiny beads that end up in the food supply, according to a new report by an environmental group.

A man surviving solely on food culled from dumpsters as he walks barefoot across America has stopped off in Los Angeles.