It’s Food Waste Prevention Week and you may be surprised to realize just how much food you could be wasting in your daily routine. “It all starts at home with taking simple steps,” said Jay Apperson, ...

How many times have you reached into the refrigerator to grab what you thought was perfectly good food, only to have to throw it out because it's moldy or gone bad? A rotten apple, a spoiled yogurt or ...

Our thoughts are with those affected by this disaster. This incident is reminiscent of what happened in Payatas 25 years ago.

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Imagine slipping in two $20 bills each time you take out the trash. The average Oregon household spends $1,800 on wasted and spoiled food each year, which comes out to $150 a month ...

It might be time to throw your preconceptions about recycling in the garbage. A decades-long effort to educate people about recycling has mostly backfired, according to new research. The study, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Food Waste Prevention Week is April 10-16, and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is encouraging all people in Oregon to take simple steps to reduce waste, save ...

In this first week of April, the Alaska Food Policy Council’s Food Waste Working Group invites you to celebrate Food Waste Prevention Week with us. In 2018, California had the first Food Waste ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Food waste impacts everything from a family’s budget to climate change. According to Skagit Food Waste Prevention, a webpage of the Washington State University Skagit County Extension, a family of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — According to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, 70% of the food that Oregonians throw away could have been eaten if it weren’t allowed to spoil beforehand. To ...