Organics

An innovative collaboration putting healthy food on empty plates in NSW

With sustainability high on the agenda for a lot of Australian businesses, there is now a concerted push not only for shared responsibility on the redistribution of food, but to create the conditions so that businesses can participate in market-positive driven outcomes. But what will it take to build responsible prosperity throughout Australia? Leaders in […]

Food Waste Facts

Find out more through the AWRE Seminar ” Food recycling in commercial premises” seminar  Credit: http://www.foodwise.com.au/ 

Do something about food waste

  The National Waste Report pegs food waste at 20 per cent of all industrial/commercial waste, and the most recent report in 2013 states that over $8 billion of food waste ends up in landfills. Valuable waste seems like an oxymoron, but waste can be utilised as a resource. At this year’s Australasian Waste & […]

Waste not, want not: turning trash into treasure

Councillor Arron Wood (City of Melbourne) will discuss the City’s waste and resource recovery priorities at the AWRE Seminar. A program that takes food scraps from Melbourne’s laneways and turns it into compost for our parks and gardens headlines a three-year plan to green the city and divert waste from landfill. The Degraves Street Recycling […]

Mallacoota’s innovative journey from kitchen to compost

The Victorian coastal town of Mallacoota has almost halved the amount of organic waste that ends up in the kerbside bins headed for landfill, since the introduction of East Gippsland Shire Council’s ‘Kitchen 2 Compost’ program in 2010. Working in collaboration with Gippsland Regional Waste Management Group and the Mallacoota community to deliver the program, […]