Good & Fugly, the Sydney startup rescuing ugly, but fresh produce and delivering it directly to consumers’ doors, is launching its second equity crowdfunding campaign to help amplify its mission
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End Food Waste Australia put forward plan to halve food waste
End Food Waste Australia with the Australian Bananas Growers’ Council, Melons Australia, and the horticulture industry have released a nationwide plan to help save fresh produce and halve Australia’s food waste by 2030.
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$7 million in new grants to reduce food waste
The NSW Government is supporting businesses and food relief charities to reduce the 1.7 million tonnes of food waste that in NSW, with the opening of two new grants programs.
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Households throwing out $2,500 of ‘waste’ food annually
No one wants to waste food and most people like to think they are not wasting too much; however, everybody may be wasting more than they think. Studies show that such wastage is costing Australian households an amount of money with the average person throwing out $18 of food each week. For a household, it is estimated that food waste may cost up to $2,500 each year.
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How profitable is food waste?
Australian food retailers make $1.2 billion in profit each year from selling food that households waste, according to new research from The Australia Institute.
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Goterra maggot robots devour food waste in 24 hours
A food waste management system is set to transform how Sydney deals with the thousands of tonnes of food waste generated each week. Soon to be unveiled by sustainability-focused startup Goterra, the state-of-the-art facility in Wetherill Park harnesses groundbreaking technology to tackle the mounting issue of food waste.
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Is the Netherlands setting the standard on food waste?
Netherlands-based Toine Timmermans has many strings to his bow when it comes to food waste. He’s the program manager of Sustainable Food Chains Wageningen University & Research Netherlands, is the co-ordinator of the European Union food waste project Refresh, the managing director of the Foundation United Against Food Waste, and is on the board of Fight Food Waste Limited.
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Sodexo diverts food waste through circular supply model
Sodexo has prevented more than 174 tonnes of food from going to waste in 14 months through a partnership with award-winning social enterprise and sustainable procurement tech tool, Yume.
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Geelong moves to process food waste locally
Geelong is set to process more food waste locally after the addition of two in-vessel HotRot composting units at the City of Greater Geelong’s Anakie Organics Processing Facility.
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National Food Waste Summit highlights targets
Every Australian needs to prevent 150kg of food waste each year if the nation is to meet its national strategy to half food waste by 2030. The headline figure was revealed at the National Food Waste Summit in Brisbane (Nov 23-24).
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