Challenge 2 Reduce your food waste

Food waste is a huge problem in Australia. Every single one of us wastes around 300kg of food a year! We actually throw out a third of what we buy. This wasted food ends up in landfill, where some of it decomposes. Could you come up with some strategies to create less food waste?

What a waste!

Australian households throw out over 7.3 million tonnes of food waste per year

92% of household food waste goes to landfill

Research Australian organisations like OzHarvest. How do they tackle food wastage on a large scale? Collect your ideas on a Jamboard and think about how you could apply it to your school community.

This decomposing food waste creates methane - which is more toxic than carbon monoxide into our atmosphere

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OzHarvest

Explore the statistics from Clean Up Australia on food wastage in Australia and see if you can recognise patterns in the data. Collect your own data on food waste and use it to create an infographic to build awareness around making changes to the way we shop and consume.

Document ways to decrease food waste at school and home in the ‘Zero Waste’ world in Minecraft Education.

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Clean up Australia

Write an action plan, an information report or record a podcast to share your findings with your school. Become a food waste influencer and make a change for good.

Start a food drive!

Do you have tinned food in your cupboard gathering dust? Organise a food drive at your school and donate tinned food to local organisations in need in your area.