You could book an overseas flight every year from the value of food you trash. Each year, Australian households throw out an average of $2500 worth of food (about $1000 per person) — the equivalent of around 312kg or one in every five shopping bags. And that’s only some of the uncomfortable yet illuminating findings by Fight Food Waste Ltd, the largest R&D organisation in the world devoted to food waste.
The great Aussie waste patch
A whopping third of the world’s food ends up as waste. And Aussies are one of the worst food wasters in the world, according to Dr Steven Lapidge, CEO of Fight Food Waste Ltd, an Australian government and industry-funded
