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FOOD WASTE WARRIORS – how you can be the change

AUSTRALIA has a BIG problem with food waste. The Department of Agriculture says that each year Australians waste around 7.3 million tonnes of food. That is about 300 kg of food waste PER PERSON, every year!

How much is that? It’s enough to fill up 13,000 Olympic sized swimming pools. I’ll bet you never plan to throw out one in every five bags of groceries you bring home, but that is what we’re doing at the

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