Solving waste starts with good design and closing the loop
Packaging company Sealed Air is helping address food waste through its CRYOVAC food packaging brand.
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Food scraps recycling trial extended
The City of Sydney is looking for an additional 100 apartment buildings to take part in a food recycling trial which has just been extended.
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Wishing waste would go away
New research shows Australians are a nation of ‘wishcyclers’ as more than half of us (51%) admit to putting waste in a recycling bin even if we’re not sure it’s recyclable.
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Sodexo gets on board food waste wagon
Sodexo, a company that specialises in quality of life services, has pledged to purchase at least 75 tonnes of surplus food by August 2021, through Yume’s surplus food online marketplace, as part of its
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More food, less waste for farmers
Today, on International Day of Awareness on Food Loss and Waste Reduction, the Food and Agribusiness Growth Centre has released new data on Australia’s food waste.
The data shows the figures for food
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Sugarcane waste-based durable packaging is plastic-free and compostable
The amount of plastic waste flowing into the ocean could triple by 2040 as part of the estimated 1.3 billion tons predicted to choke our already strained ecosystem, killing marine life and polluting the
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AIP webinar discusses role packaging has in minimising food waste
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is to discuss the important role that packaging plays in minimising food waste at up-coming APCO Webinar on 26 August
This webinar will be looking at the journey
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APCO releases August sustainability webinar topics
The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation has released the August schedule for its successful Weekly Community Webinar series. The series has proved popular during lockdown conditions, with over 3,000
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Yume and SUEZ strategic partnership addressing food waste
A partnership to tackle commercial food waste in Australia is kicking some major goals by selling high quality surplus food that might have otherwise gone to waste.
Yume, the leading online marketplace
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Reviving reusable coffee cups for plastic-free July
Global experts unite to confirm reusable cups and containers are safe for use during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Around 83 million disposable coffee cups are used every month in Australia – a statistic
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Social media campaign launched to fight food waste
Australians who have been economically impacted by COVID-19 are doing it tough. The bills keep coming in and the family still needs to be fed. Yet the average Australian family continues to waste around
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One billion pieces of plastic saved from landfill
Coles has taken a step towards its goal of becoming Australia’s most sustainable supermarket after diverting more than 1 billion pieces of soft plastics from landfill.
Since 2011, Coles has worked
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Is Australia on track to halve food waste by 2030?
Each year, over five million tonnes of food in Australia ends up in landfill, enough to fill 9,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
In 2017, the Australian Government committed to halve this level of food
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August Special Feature for Food & Beverage Industry News – Waste Management
Food waste is a huge issue in Australia, with just over 7.3 million tonnes generated in Australia alone. Primary industry contributes more than 30 per cent to that figure, and with both food and packaging
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Cold chain food waste costing billions
A report on the causes of food waste in Australia has attributed $3.8 billion in wasted food to “breaks and deficiencies in the cold food chain.”
The Expert Group, a local consultancy said that this
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Woolworths further reduces plastic packaging
Even during the COVID-19, 70 per cent of Australians are continuing to rank taking care of the planet and making sustainable choices as important to them, according to research revealed by Woolworths
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New cold chain study reveals cost of wasted food
A new government and industry-sponsored study has revealed that food waste attributable to failures in the cold food chain costs the Australian economy nearly $4 billion at farm gate values and causes
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Maximum taste, minimum waste as Australia takes home global award
Poultry brand ‘The Bare Bird’ together with Sealed Air’s CRYOVAC brand ‘Darfresh on Tray’ packaging received the “Packaging that Saves Food” – gold star award from the 2020 WorldStar packaging
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Thinking outside the packaging box
Almost 65,000 commercial foodservice outlets including bars, cafes and restaurants have been forced to pivot over the last six weeks due to the Australian Government-ordered COVID-19 shutdowns. Those that
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Mapping ahead for Australia’s food waste future
Food waste is an issue. It’s a massive issue. It’s something that everybody – from consumers and manufacturers through to primary producers – know about, and want to do something about, but never
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