Why is Food Waste important? Why are we bothering?
As promised, here are the answers to the Food Waste Quiz.
Answers to Food Waste in Australia – Quiz
- 40% of the average household rubbish bin is food waste
- The $ value of food thrown away each year by the average Australian household is $1,036
- If you added up all the food Australia wastes each year, it would fill 450.000 garbage trucks
- 1460 gigalitres of water are used each year to produce food that is thrown “away”
- 3.2 million tons of food is sent to landfill each year
- Food waste costs Australian farmers $2.8 billion annually
- The economic cost of food waste in Australia is $20 billion per year
Power point presentation on Food Waste
This presentation is full of useful information on
- What can we do before FOGO, or if we live outside of the Bridgetown-Greenbushes kerbside collection area
- What we can do with our household food waste if we don’t keep animals and don’t have space or don’t want to compost
- What we can do if we have extra food
- Apps and websites and booklets to help us identify the source of our “supermarket” food and the ethical status of the food producer/packer
Food Waste presentation Jan 2021
Apps and online resources
Sharewaste is a free mobile and web app which connects people who wish to recycle their kitchen scraps with neighbours who are already composting or have chickens or worms farms
ShareWaste – Give your waste a second chance!
Instagram.com/sharewaste