{
  "id": 19891216,
  "title": "Five Fixes for Food Waste",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/five-fixes-for-food-waste",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-14T00:29:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Anthropocene Magazine",
    "slug": "anthropocene-magazine",
    "url": "https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/11/five-fixes-for-food-waste/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Every day, the world discards over a billion meals' worth of food, despite hundreds of millions going hungry. A fifth of all food reaching stores, restaurants and kitchens is wasted, accounting for 8 to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions – nearly five times the emissions from flying.\n\nThere are five potential solutions to reduce food waste. Scientific advancements are turning industrial food waste into valuable products. Chemists have discovered a cost-effective method to recycle mountains of industrial ice cream waste. The same proteins that maintain a frozen treat's smooth texture pose a challenge in recovering its fat.\n\nRecycling food waste offers significant climate benefits, but it also presents an environmental downside. A study examining American composting and biogas systems reveals that the climate gains are overshadowed by a microplastics problem. The issue lies in the materials used to wrap food.",
  "summary": "Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Email Newsletters Newsletters Science Dispatch (weekly) Fixing Carbon (twice a month)",
  "key_points": [
    "Over a billion meals wasted daily worldwide",
    "Scientists develop method to recycle industrial ice cream waste",
    "Composting and biogas systems cause microplastics issue"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Turning industrial waste into valuable products offers climate benefits, but the pervasive use of plastic packaging threatens to undermine the environmental gains of composting and biogas recycling systems.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}