Gulbanu Kaptan was awarded research funding (with project partners WRAP and Zero Waste Scotland) from the UKRI ESRC for a project on reducing household food waste (2020-2022). She is a Co-investigator ...

Waste is a practical challenge throughout the food chain all the way from the farm to the consumer. A substantial amount of waste occurs at the food service level because it isn’t possible to fully ...

Discarded food not only burdens our waste management systems; it also is a growing offender in our climate crisis. "Food waste, if it was its own country, would actually be the third largest emitter ...

Most food waste doesn’t come from bad cooking or poor planning. It comes from small everyday habits that quietly pile up, like buying a little too much, forgetting what’s already in the fridge, or ...

Over the last five years, Lesly Baesens and her team have been enthusiastically digging through Denver residents’ garbage cans. They call the practice “waste auditing.” And with each unopened bag of ...

Millions of recyclable materials are put into incorrect waste streams every year. The UK startup Greyparrot uses AI to help mitigate environmental harm from improper waste disposal. This article is ...