Plan meals that intentionally produce leftovers you can repurpose. Choose “stretchable” ingredients: Staples like r ...

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 ...

Alejandra Schrader is a cookbook author, chef, food TV personality, and activist based in Los Angeles, California. The act of cooking often involves throwing food away. The peel of a sweet potato, the ...

Wasted food is a financial and environmental bummer. It costs U.S. consumers $728 every year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and emits the annual equivalent planet-warming ...

When it comes to consumer food waste, the numbers can be staggering, but consider this: More than one-third of “all available food goes uneaten through loss or waste” in the United States, according ...

Reducing waste at Compass also extends to community giving. In 2025, Compass donated over 250,000 meals to Second Harvest, Canada’s largest food rescue organization that rescues surplus food across ...