{"id":11441,"date":"2022-10-31T01:09:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T14:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/2022\/10\/31\/stop-food-waste-australia-media-release\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:40:57","slug":"stop-food-waste-australia-media-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/stop-food-waste-australia-media-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Food Waste Australia Media Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p2\"><b>MEDIA RELEASE <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>Thursday, 29 September 2022<\/i><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>New food waste initiative to help millions of food insecure Australians<\/b><\/h1>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><b><\/b><i><\/i><i>Australian businesses and the Australian government can help strengthen food rescue, help feed food insecure Australians, and minimise the environmental impacts of food waste, latest Sector Action Plan from Stop Food Waste Australia outlines.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Food rescue plays a critical role in Australia meeting its stated target of halving food waste by 2030 while also helping address the growing need for food relief. In 2021, Australia\u2019s food rescue sector redirected or repurposed more than 80 million kilograms of good-quality food and redistributed it as meals for millions of food insecure Australians.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55704 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit.png\" alt=\"fruit and vegetable clip art\" width=\"670\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit.png 670w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit-250x112.png 250w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit-120x54.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p2\"><strong>The Food Rescue Sector Action Plan has been co-designed and developed with Australia\u2019s four biggest food rescue charities \u2013 Foodbank, OzHarvest, SecondBite and FareShare. The Plan outlines key interventions in research, policy, business collaboration and education that will help support and strengthen food rescue, reduce food waste across the supply chain and assist food insecure Australians.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Sector Action Plan aims to increase surplus food captured for redistribution, highlighting key initiatives for both the food rescue sector and policy-makers, primary producers, manufacturers, retailers, transport and logistics organisations and other associated parties, including:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\">Improving tax incentives to encourage donations of surplus food and essential services to the food rescue sector.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">Establish a collaborative steering group within the sector to discuss and prioritise actions and develop a workable plan for the sector to implement.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">Enhance research initiatives to improve collective understanding of the sector and current food rescue models and systems, and investigate alternative models of food rescue and distribution of surplus food.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\">Partner with the Australian Food Pact Signatories \u2013 comprising some of Australia\u2019s biggest food businesses \u2013 to embed food donation into business practices and food waste reduction targets.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Stop Food Waste Australia Chief Executive Officer Dr Steven Lapidge says the value of Australia\u2019s food rescue sector cannot be understated.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cFood rescue is a unique approach to reducing food waste because it also has the fundamental co-benefit of reducing food insecurity,\u201d Dr Lapidge says.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55706 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"foodbank Hamper packages\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-120x68.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-scaled.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Australians continue to waste more than 7.6 million tonnes of food every year \u2013 70% of which is edible. At the same time, one in six Australian adults haven\u2019t had enough to eat in the last year, and 1.2 million Australian children have gone hungry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stop Food Waste Australia Chief Operating Officer Mark Barthel says the Sector Action Plan offers a path for increasing the amount of food redistributed to vulnerable Australians and diverted from landfill \u2013 contributing to Australia\u2019s target of halving food waste by 2030.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe Food Rescue Sector Action Plan highlights the importance of collaboration with and between the biggest food rescue charities, the government and business partners to ensure good-quality surplus food is donated to the people who need it and not wasted.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-250x167.jpg\" alt=\"a hand receiving fruits\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-scaled.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u201cFood rescue is such an important sector for us and the progress we\u2019ve made as part of developing the Plan in a few short years has been truly impressive and driven by a group of very passionate people with a strong sense of purpose.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe are also working with a growing number of food businesses, like signatories to the Australian Food Pact, to prevent food from being wasted and to maximise the potential for any surplus food that does exist to be donated to the food rescue sector, through partnerships that are in place and strong.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p1\">Sarah Pennell, General Manager of Business at Foodbank Australia and member of the Food Rescue Sector Action Plan Steering Committee says,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">This work will have a positive impact on the lives of millions of Australians who are currently food insecure. It will have a similarly positive impact on helping to reduce this country\u2019s food waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For the food rescue sector itself, having Stop Food Waste Australia bring us together to work on this has been game changing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The release of the Food Rescue Sector Action Plan aligns with the United Nations\u2019 International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (Thursday, September 29). Stop Food Waste Australia is proudly working towards the UN Sustainability Goal 12.3 to halve food waste by 2030 and acknowledges that this cannot be achieved without the support and commitment of its partners.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Food Rescue Sector Action Plan is the second in a series of sector plans developed by Stop Food Waste Australia, following the Food Cold Chain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopfoodwaste.com.au\/uniting-australias-food-cold-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Sector Action Plan <\/span><\/a>released in July 2022. Sector Action Plans provide targeted insights and interventions for food waste \u2018hotspots\u2019. The plans are co-designed to address food waste in collaboration with those most able to affect direct change and tackle the root cause(s) of food waste and to support action to reduce food waste in the value chain.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>For more information on the Food Rescue Sector Action Plan:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopfoodwaste.com.au\/Sector-Action-Plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">stopfoodwaste.com.au\/Sector-Action-Plans\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA RELEASE Thursday, 29 September 2022 New food waste initiative to help millions of food insecure Australians \u00a0Australian businesses and the Australian government can help strengthen food rescue, help feed food insecure Australians, and minimise the environmental impacts of food waste, latest Sector Action Plan from Stop Food Waste Australia outlines.\u00a0 Food rescue plays a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,235,236],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-11441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aus","category-media-releases","category-news","tag-media-release"],"acf":[],"formatted_date":"October 31, 2022","raw_html":"<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p2\"><b>MEDIA RELEASE <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>Thursday, 29 September 2022<\/i><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>New food waste initiative to help millions of food insecure Australians<\/b><\/h1>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><b><\/b><i><\/i><i>Australian businesses and the Australian government can help strengthen food rescue, help feed food insecure Australians, and minimise the environmental impacts of food waste, latest Sector Action Plan from Stop Food Waste Australia outlines.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Food rescue plays a critical role in Australia meeting its stated target of halving food waste by 2030 while also helping address the growing need for food relief. In 2021, Australia\u2019s food rescue sector redirected or repurposed more than 80 million kilograms of good-quality food and redistributed it as meals for millions of food insecure Australians.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55704 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit.png\" alt=\"fruit and vegetable clip art\" width=\"670\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit.png 670w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit-250x112.png 250w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit-120x54.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p2\"><strong>The Food Rescue Sector Action Plan has been co-designed and developed with Australia\u2019s four biggest food rescue charities \u2013 Foodbank, OzHarvest, SecondBite and FareShare. The Plan outlines key interventions in research, policy, business collaboration and education that will help support and strengthen food rescue, reduce food waste across the supply chain and assist food insecure Australians.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Sector Action Plan aims to increase surplus food captured for redistribution, highlighting key initiatives for both the food rescue sector and policy-makers, primary producers, manufacturers, retailers, transport and logistics organisations and other associated parties, including:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\">Improving tax incentives to encourage donations of surplus food and essential services to the food rescue sector.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">Establish a collaborative steering group within the sector to discuss and prioritise actions and develop a workable plan for the sector to implement.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">Enhance research initiatives to improve collective understanding of the sector and current food rescue models and systems, and investigate alternative models of food rescue and distribution of surplus food.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\">Partner with the Australian Food Pact Signatories \u2013 comprising some of Australia\u2019s biggest food businesses \u2013 to embed food donation into business practices and food waste reduction targets.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Stop Food Waste Australia Chief Executive Officer Dr Steven Lapidge says the value of Australia\u2019s food rescue sector cannot be understated.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cFood rescue is a unique approach to reducing food waste because it also has the fundamental co-benefit of reducing food insecurity,\u201d Dr Lapidge says.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55706 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"foodbank Hamper packages\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-120x68.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC01758-scaled.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Australians continue to waste more than 7.6 million tonnes of food every year \u2013 70% of which is edible. At the same time, one in six Australian adults haven\u2019t had enough to eat in the last year, and 1.2 million Australian children have gone hungry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stop Food Waste Australia Chief Operating Officer Mark Barthel says the Sector Action Plan offers a path for increasing the amount of food redistributed to vulnerable Australians and diverted from landfill \u2013 contributing to Australia\u2019s target of halving food waste by 2030.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe Food Rescue Sector Action Plan highlights the importance of collaboration with and between the biggest food rescue charities, the government and business partners to ensure good-quality surplus food is donated to the people who need it and not wasted.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-250x167.jpg\" alt=\"a hand receiving fruits\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Foodbank-2-scaled.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u201cFood rescue is such an important sector for us and the progress we\u2019ve made as part of developing the Plan in a few short years has been truly impressive and driven by a group of very passionate people with a strong sense of purpose.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe are also working with a growing number of food businesses, like signatories to the Australian Food Pact, to prevent food from being wasted and to maximise the potential for any surplus food that does exist to be donated to the food rescue sector, through partnerships that are in place and strong.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\t\t<section class=\"section page-element\" data-pb-label=\"Section\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"column flex\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"><div class=\"w-full px-4 md:flex-1\"><p class=\"p1\">Sarah Pennell, General Manager of Business at Foodbank Australia and member of the Food Rescue Sector Action Plan Steering Committee says,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">This work will have a positive impact on the lives of millions of Australians who are currently food insecure. It will have a similarly positive impact on helping to reduce this country\u2019s food waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For the food rescue sector itself, having Stop Food Waste Australia bring us together to work on this has been game changing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The release of the Food Rescue Sector Action Plan aligns with the United Nations\u2019 International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (Thursday, September 29). Stop Food Waste Australia is proudly working towards the UN Sustainability Goal 12.3 to halve food waste by 2030 and acknowledges that this cannot be achieved without the support and commitment of its partners.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Food Rescue Sector Action Plan is the second in a series of sector plans developed by Stop Food Waste Australia, following the Food Cold Chain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopfoodwaste.com.au\/uniting-australias-food-cold-chain\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Sector Action Plan <\/span><\/a>released in July 2022. Sector Action Plans provide targeted insights and interventions for food waste \u2018hotspots\u2019. The plans are co-designed to address food waste in collaboration with those most able to affect direct change and tackle the root cause(s) of food waste and to support action to reduce food waste in the value chain.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>For more information on the Food Rescue Sector Action Plan:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopfoodwaste.com.au\/Sector-Action-Plans\/\"><span class=\"s1\">stopfoodwaste.com.au\/Sector-Action-Plans\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>","ACF":false,"featured_image_url":"","author_name":"alisha@foodbank.org.au","spinnr_header":"default_spinnr_header","spinnr_mobile_menu":"default_spinnr_mobile_menu","spinnr_footer":"default_spinnr_footer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15399,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions\/15399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}