Each year, Australian households discard about 2.5 million tonnes of food, write Trang Nguyen and Patrick O'Connor. Most (73%) of this food waste ends up in landfill. This is costly and contributes to escalating greenhouse gas emissions because food waste rotting in landfill produces methane. So...
Health Check: Enzo Palombo looks at the do's and dont's Refrigeration is the most important invention in the history of food. But while commercial and home refrigerators have only been used for the past 100 years or so, people have long used cool natural environments to...
Imagine you go to the supermarket to buy food for your family. You purchase three bags of groceries. As you leave the store, you throw one bag into a rubbish bin … This scenario might seem ridiculous, but it’s a very apt analogy for the waste...
From the farm to the plate, the modern day food system has a waste problem, reports Mark Boulet, Each year, a third of all food produced around the world, or 1.3 billion tonnes, ends up as rubbish. Imagine that for a moment – it’s like buying...
Mark Boulet & Kim Borg report how Festive celebrations can leave you with more than one kind of hangover – what to do with the debris of leftover food, gift wrapping, damaged decorations and mountains of plastic packaging? But with some preparation, a little restraint and...
