With grocery prices what they are, having to toss spoiled food is an even more bitter pill to swallow. While your compost pile thrives from unused fruit, veggies and salad greens, most of us would ...

A trip to the grocery store often feels mechanical: you go in, grab your usual list of necessities, pack them up, then head home to unload. But the truth is, each decision we make inside the store ...

Online micro-grocer Farmstead was founded on the vision of reducing food waste. Now, it’s tackling plastic waste. Ditching the thin plastic film commonly used in conventional supermarkets’ produce ...

I recently visited San Francisco. We had delicious meals, many of them home cooked. When my daughter-in-law came back from the Safeway store, I helped her unload her groceries. I was surprised to see ...

As a recycling educator, I have to say no to Marge Congress’s plea for compostable produce bags (“Readers respond: Produce bags should be compostable,” Aug. 7). What Oregonians need to know is that ...

California has entered a new phase of waste reduction as a statewide ban on all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores and ...