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Solutions Spotlight: Areco Pacific

Solution Providers Areco Pacific, the Australian subsidiary from the company Areco located in France, specialises in the performance of fresh food departments, in the fight against food waste, the promotion of better eating and the preservation of the environment. Areco Pacific are founding Solution Providers Signatories of the Australian Food Pact. Robert Mura, Head of …

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Top 10 actions from the 2022 National Food Waste Summit

A message from Dr Steven Lapidge, CEO Fight Food Waste Limited: Thank you to everyone who joined the second National Food Waste Summit and Trade Show. Your participation helped ensure the Summit was an unqualified success, and a milestone event on our journey to halving Australia’s food waste by 2030. Changemakers from across the food …

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Stop Food Waste Australia is recruiting! New program coordinator role.

We’re looking for a program coordinator to work with our team (either at our HQ in Adelaide or remotely) to help us realise our vision of an Australia without food waste. Are you an experienced project manager with fantastic organisational skills?  Have you got amazing communication skills?  Can you juggle a wide variety of tasks? …

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New food waste initiative to help millions of food insecure Australians

Australian businesses and the Australian government can help strengthen food rescue, help feed food insecure Australians, and minimise the environmental impacts of food waste, latest Sector Action Plan from Stop Food Waste Australia outlines.  Food rescue plays a critical role in Australia meeting its stated target of halving food waste by 2030 while also helping …

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Australia’s biggest gathering dedicated to fighting food waste

Changemakers from across the food industry, government and research institutions will gather in Brisbane on 23–24 November for the 2nd National Food Waste Summit and Trade Show.  Stop Food Waste Australia and Fight Food Waste CRC are proud to host the National Food Waste Summit on 23–24 November, 2022 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition …

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Halving food waste does not mean compromising food safety

By Nick Cork, Stop Food Waste Australia Technical Account Manager A staggering one-third of all food produced in Australia is wasted. This equates to 7.6 million tonnes of waste food annually, enough to fill the Melbourne Cricket Ground to the brim ten times. Of which, fresh produce remains one of the most wasted foods. Food …

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Uniting Australia’s food cold chain to fight a $36.6b food waste challenge

A new Australian-first plan to tackle food waste across the food cold chain sector. The Food Cold Chain Sector Action Plan (SAP) has been co-designed and developed with Australia’s peak cold chain body, the Australian Food Cold Chain Council. The plan aims to reduce food waste from ‘gate to plate’, helping Australia in its stated …

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Event recap: Working together to reduce food loss & waste in horticulture

During Hort Connections 2022, Stop Food Waste Australia, in conjunction with the Fruit and Vegetable Consortium, held a morning session on food loss and waste in horticulture. Industry leaders, researchers and innovators in the food waste space took to the stage, while growers and industry and government representatives filled the seats. Together robust conversations took place …

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Food waste in Australian homes: evidence for designing interventions

Coinciding with Stop Food Waste Day (April 27, 2022) is the release of the landmark report: Food Waste in Australian Households: Evidence for designing interventions (Fight Food Waste CRC). For those working to reduce food waste, this report outlines the most impactful areas to focus interventions on.  Australian households throw out a staggering $19.3 billion …

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