Love Food Hate Waste
Loving your food
Did you know the average household wastes $1036 worth of food each year? Every time we throw food into the bin, we're also discarding the vast amounts of resources, energy and water that it took to produce, process, store, refrigerate, transport and cook our food.
As food lovers, we can enjoy the taste of our food and the social side of eating together. We can also buy, cook and save our food better, reducing our environmental impact and saving us time and money.
Love Food Hate Waste aims to raise awareness about the impact of food waste in NSW and reduce how much 'good' food we waste. Love Food Hate Waste is managed by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) partnering with corporate, government and not-for-profit organisations committed to reducing food waste in NSW.
Visit the Love Food Hate Waste website (opens in a new window) website for how your household can avoid food waste.
Funded Love Food Hate Waste Projects
UWS and Henry Doubleday
UWS will conduct a series of Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) workshops in partnership with Henry Double Day including the distribution of LFHW tips and recipes through workshops and the UWS Community cookbook to minimize food waste and use leftovers, a 12 month pilot of a local food hamper scheme to promote local food cooperatives with the intention of the students developing their own local food cooperative and encourage student residents to buy local food and to reduce dependence on take away. The project will be documented by Television Sydney (TVS) and broadcast on community television.
Please see the clip below as an example of the workshops held at the Hawkesbury Earthcare Centre between the Office of Sustainability and Henry Doubleday with students from the UWS Hawkesbury campus.
In addition to this project the Office of Sustainability funded and produced the UWS Community Cookbook (opens in a new window) which was launched in August 2012 by Costa Georgiadis, host of Gardening Australia.
Penrith City Council
Penrith City Council has recently completed a food based education program for the local community called as part of the Love Food Hate Waste program. Council’s program, which was primarily funded by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, engaged local residents around the issues of food and sustainability.
The main focus was to reduce the amount of food waste that households produce through menu planning and smarter shopping. The nature of the topic also meant that other important messages such as the advantages of fresh local produce, the health benefits of a balanced diet, and the financial savings when reducing food wastage could also be included in the program.
