How does food waste affect business?

Follow our series on food waste & see companies that are lessening their environmental impact & saving money in the process. Learn how your company can too. read more

Food waste is probably the number one thing that affects restaurants. Food has a short shelf life see have to use it in an appropriate amount of time before goes bad. read more

In Britain, which has some of the most comprehensive data on food waste available, each family discards, on average, 700 pounds, or $1,170, worth of food a year. read more

The collateral damage of food waste far exceeds a mere loss of potential caloric intake; like a broken motor hungrily guzzling resources, the waste of food is an exponential loss of resources. Conquering and pillaging fields, industrial agriculture has usurped the power of the sun, hijacking the natural food chain and instilling a system that has an unhealthy dependence on oil (Pollan, 2006). read more