In Japan, Kitanagase Area Management introduced ... to help hand down a sustainable Earth to children by reducing food waste.” ...

Convincing shoppers to buy less-than-perfect produce is vital to the food industry’s efforts to cut food waste.

As Japanese food science looks to the future ... Improved environmental benefits will also come from local actions such as reducing food waste along the chain from production to consumption.

In 2016, Japan produced about 6.4 million tons of food waste. That's nearly twice the annual amount of aid that the UN World Food Program delivers to developing nations.

The food-waste problem was particularly noticeable ... athletes from around the world would recognize the appeal of Japanese food and ingredients, and help to promote them internationally.

However, the wider economic argument for smart packaging is compelling: food waste contributes to hundreds of billions of dollars in global annual losses, and smart solutions can reduce these losses ...

We think that is a point Japanese food waste problem is not solved. We decide to make people change the way to buy vegetable. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, Japanese has become more health-conscious ...

There, papermaker Igarashi Masami created "Food Paper," combining produce like potatoes or onions – mainly discards and scraps from the food industry – with paper mulberry, the traditional ...