SecondBite is encouraging Australians to get creative with reducing and eliminating their food waste, announcing its inaugural 21-day ‘No Food Waste Challenge’. Aimed at promoting awareness of the charity’s efforts to support food insecure Australians, every dollar raised will help provide up to five nutritious meals for those in need.
Participants will be asked to reduce or eliminate their food waste, use up all their leftovers and start conversations with family, friends, and colleagues to all “do their bit” to support better environmental and financial outcomes.
Every year, Australians waste approximately 7.6 million tonnes of food costing the Australian economy $36.6 billion. The garbage found in the average household bin is 40 per cent food with 18 per cent of purchased food going to waste, even though 70 per cent of it is still edible.
SecondBite co-founder Simone Carson AM said even small changes could make a large impact on how much personal food waste we all produce.
“In the past 12 months, over two million households in Australia have experienced severe food insecurity and on any given day, over half a million households are struggling to meet their food needs.
“The No Food Waste Challenge will support our food rescue programs so we can continue to reduce food insecurity and hunger, and address critical social, environmental and economic challenges that come from food waste and excess packaging,” said Carson.
Individuals, families, teams and corporate companies can sign up as part of the SecondBite No Food Waste Challenge which runs 8 – 29 September.
