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Dec 02 , 2020Views : 25205
Australia’s Food Waste Progress Has Been Massively Derailed by COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has “derailed” Australia's progress in minimising food waste, with stockpiling and an uptick in the utilisation of food delivery services leading to households throwing out almost 13% of their weekly groceries.
Australians are now forking out an unparalleled $1,043 a year on food they end up wasting, a figure that has ballooned the nation’s yearly wasted-food bill to $10.3 billion. At the beginning of 2020, before COVID-19 exploded in Australia, the country was on course to spend $8.64 billion in food waste, a 14% decrease from the previous year.
Australians are now forking out an unparalleled $1,043 a year on food they end up wasting, a figure that has ballooned the nation’s yearly wasted-food bill to $10.3 billion. At the beginning of 2020, before COVID-19 exploded in Australia, the country was on course to spend $8.64 billion in food waste, a 14% decrease from the previous year.
