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Food waste is everywhere in our lives and perhaps most importantly in the places where we’ve just stopped noticing.
Food Waste Matters is all about having serious conversations with businesses, industry leaders and researchers who are on the front line in the fight against food waste. Our guests aren’t just discussing the problem, they’re living the solutions. Hear from food manufacturers, visionary farmers, and ground breaking researchers sharing real strategies for turning excess into success.
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Shining a spotlight on Australian businesses that are turning food waste into profit
Regional businesses sustain the economy throughout Australia, particularly in the agricultural and food sectors. Despite their importance, these businesses often struggle with implementing sustainable practices, such as decreasing food waste, due to limited resources, lack of knowledge, and capacity constraints.
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Previous episodes
How do you find the sweet spot for optimum packaging design and reduce food waste at the same time? In today’s episode, Jayne Gallagher is in conversation with Nerida Kelton who is a keen advocate for safe food packaging, bringing a wealth of experience, with 26 years in the industry under her belt.
Do you feel that you’re fighting tooth and nail to secure grant funding to keep your food waste dreams alive?
While tackling the immense problem of food waste, many small businesses and organisations ask where can I get help? Where can I get support to implement ideas that I have? How can I scale? This week, the conversation is centred around these very questions as Jayne Gallagher chats with Prue Saxby, an expert in grants from Indigo Gold.
This episode features our CEO check-in with Dr. Steven Lapidge, of End Food Waste Australia. Dr Lapidge shared insights and highlights from the 2024 National Food Waste Summit held in Melbourne.
In Australia, addressing the issue of food waste is considered a complex problem that involves constantly shifting environmental, economic, social, and ethical dynamics. To effectively tackle these interdisciplinary challenges, researchers must take a comprehensive approach to collecting evidence.
In Australia, addressing the issue of food waste is considered a complex problem that involves constantly shifting environmental, economic, social, and ethical dynamics. To effectively tackle these interdisciplinary challenges, researchers must take a comprehensive approach to collecting evidence.
In Australia, addressing the issue of food waste is considered a complex problem that involves constantly shifting environmental, economic, social, and ethical dynamics. To effectively tackle these interdisciplinary challenges, researchers must take a comprehensive approach to collecting evidence.
When it comes to fighting the fight against food waste, understanding the data behind waste problems is half the solution.
Dr Joanne Freeman joins Simon Lockrey from RMIT and Victor Barichello from Empauer.
How does the collaboration of university research and industry expertise generate tomorrow’s leaders in tackling food waste?
Jayne Gallagher is in conversation with Dr. Steven Lapidge, who is back with another CEO check-in with End Food Waste Australia. Hear about a new program that unites university research and industry expertise by sponsoring current professionals for a PhD that will explore and address food waste.
What happens when a date lover and a doctor meet and find a shared passion for reducing food waste?
After the deterioration of water quality and the onset of the millennium drought in the early ’90s, Dave Reilly pivoted from growing vegetables to wine grapes and eventually to date palms due to their high salt tolerance – a decision that would significantly shape their future endeavours.
Where you might see a blemish, Ugly Duck Fine Foods creates a delicacy.
Reducing food waste…it just makes sense.
In this episode of Food Waste Matters, host Dr. Joanne Freeman of Honey & Fox interviews Michelle Masher, the owner of Ugly Duck Fine Foods in Queensland. Michelle shares her journey, inspired by her German grandparents’ dairy farm, to combat food waste by transforming imperfect produce into delicious jams and relishes.
Let yourself dream for just a moment. Food with rich, fertile flavours, nurtured and grown with love and care in your own backyard.
Today, we’re celebrating the amazing food our own backyard has to offer from an island south of the Seven Seas, Tasmania. Dr. Joanne Freeman is in discussion with Libby McKay from Eat Well Tasmania. Eat Well Tasmania champions healthy eating and promotes opportunities to eat healthy Tasmanian-grown, produced and value-added food.
With a staggering 5 million bananas consumed in Australian homes every day and a production value of 597 million, how are industry corporations addressing the issue of food waste?
In this episode, Dr. Joanne Freeman is speaking with Melissa Smith, End Food Waste Australia and Dr Rosie Godwin Australian Banana Growers’ Council.
