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6 July 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
Britons bin £13bn worth of food a year according to Government’s latest stats. And in most developed countries, over half of all food waste takes place in the home.
5 July 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
Orange whey is not considered commercially viable so cheddar makers often waste it. The new method could bring a welcome chunk of revenue back into the producer's pocket.
12 June 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
A handful of creameries are turning away from disposing whey in landfill sites or turning it into whey protein and towards a new alcoholic possibility.
1 June 2018 | By Daniel Birchmore (New Food)
New research has suggested rational behaviour is not the only thing that keeps Russians from throwing away food - many food-handling practices have been shaped by socio-cultural factors, including the gastronomic trauma suffered in times of famine and scarcity.
1 May 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
EU policy-makers need to implement a food systems approach to address negative impacts of climate change on food systems and encourage healthy, environmentally sustainable diets, say European national science academies.
25 April 2018 | By TOMRA Sorting Food
The amount of food we waste every year equals to 9 billion fish, 1 trillion bags of potatoes, 75 million cows, 574 billion eggs, 763 billion boxes of pasta, 3.7 trillion apples and enough olive oil to fill 11,000 Olympic size pools.
19 April 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
Approximately 30 million acres of cropland (7 per cent of annual cropland acreage) were used to produce wasted food.
17 April 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
For every US$1 hotels invested in programmes to reduce kitchen food waste, they saved an average of $7 according to a new report.
28 March 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
New analysis from the Weizmann Institute using the concept of opportunity costs suggests hundreds of millions more could eat from the same resources if we switched to plant-based diets.
26 March 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
With 7.3 million tonnes of food and drink wasted in the UK every year, supermarkets are occasionally hesitant to reveal their food waste figures, but Ocado's business model has meant that it stands out from the crowd.
22 March 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
The process of making wine wastes around a quarter of the grape, discarding stalks, seeds and skins to landfill. Now researchers have found a way to repurpose that once useless residue.
16 March 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded grants worth a total of US$2.6 million to support the initial development of 27 agriculture and food production university projects.
9 March 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
Tackling food waste with natural composters beneath Glasgow city centre, using grains from breweries to boost milk production and improving packaging for pickled eggs are among the latest ideas to be awarded grant funding at industry event celebrating innovation.
4 January 2018 | By George Smith (New Food)
Scientists have used a receptor found in zebrafish to detect the scent of a compound given off by rotting meat.
13 December 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)
Food waste is a global problem. Every year, humans throw away 1.3 billion tonnes, a third of our production. One solution may have emerged – feeding it back to us.
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