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Food Waste in Australia

Food waste is an important issue in Australia and there are some startling statistics to bring the point home : every day, the equivalent of 521 semi-trailers of food goes to waste in the Australian commercial kitchens. The following list comprises links to articles, videos and library resources that include issues of food waste, recycling, and food security in Australia. 

Articles:

• Recycling right: Let’s bin the confusion
• Leading the war against food waste
• No time to waste : the plastic problem
• Kitchen closes the loop on food waste
• Australasian Recycling Labels
• Australian startup enlists insect army to tackle food waste
• Food waste : a growing Australian problem
• Food waste facts from OzHarvest

• Facts, Statistics & Solutions about food waste in Australia

Video and Audio:

• Reading Australian recycling labels (YouTube)
• How to prevent food waste (ABC Radio)
• Food waste soutions come in small packages (podcast)

Website:

• Redcycle homepage (soft plastics recycling)
• Recycling near you
• Fight Food Waste Corporate Research Centre (CRC)
• Foodwise - information about food sustainability
• OzHarvest homepage
• Oz Harvest's Fight Food Waste homepage
• Rethinkg Waste Tasmania
• Clean up Australia : Food Waste hompage

Other Online Resources:

• Redcycling poster (PDF)
• Publications from Fight Food Waste CRC
• Federal Government Food Waste Strategy

Library Resources: