How much food waste does America create and what can we do about it?
America generates up to 1,000 pounds of food waste per person each year, enough to feed millions. Simple policy changes could help.
Recycling & compost
To reduce waste, conserve natural resources and address the mounting climate crisis, America needs more recycling and composting.
The Latest on Recycling & compost
Are some recycling labels misleading? Unfortunately, yes.
Trash Talk’: Students discuss solutions to plastic pollution
Featured Resources
Products without packaging: How refill stores can help solve the plastics crisis
Reducing plastic waste in the states
Trash in America
Forty-Seven State Legislators call on Whole Foods to put Planet over Plastic
The Latest
Department of the Interior will end plastic pollution in parks, public lands
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland issued an order on Wednesday, World Oceans Day, to phase out single-use plastic products on lands managed by the Department of the Interior by 2032. The order is intended to reduce -- and eventually eliminate -- plastic and polystyrene food and beverage containers, bottles, straws, cups, cutlery and disposable plastic bags at national parks and on other public lands.
How to Save Food and Prevent Food Waste
We all play a role in creating food waste, so we can all be part of the solution.
Why we should expand composting infrastructure across the country.
Increasing compost can quickly and efficiently decrease methane emissions in landfills and restore soil health.
Here’s why part one of the EPA’s National Recycling Strategy doesn’t go far enough
Report examines America’s waste problem over past 3 years
Every year, the average American throws out nearly 1,800 pounds of trash. On Thursday, PIRG Education Fund, Environment America Research & Policy Center, Frontier Group and Community Action Works released a new report, Trash in America: Moving from destructive consumption towards a zero-waste system. The report examines America’s waste problem and recommends 10 steps the United States should take to build a “zero waste” economy.