Waste less,
Reducing food waste is easy if you follow some
simple rules that will save you money and help
you enjoy more of your food.
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Waste less, enjoy more
Reducing food waste is easy if you follow some simple rules that will save you money and help you enjoy more of your food.
Food insecurity
One in six Aussies haven’t had enough to eat in the last year. On top of this, 1.2 million children have gone hungry during the same period.
Wasteful households
Food waste comes from our homes – Australians throw away around one in five bags of groceries, equal to around 312kg of food per person each year.
Increasing CO²
Food waste accounts for 3% of Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to an average car driving around the world 2 million times.
References: Foodbank Hunger Report 2022, National Food Waste Strategy Feasibility Study 2021
Recipes to help reduce waste
To help you throw less in the bin and therefore see less in landfill, we’ve put together some great tasting, healthy recipes to give those leftovers a second life.
Repurposing your leftovers
There’s so much we throw away that can be reused and repurposed.
Here are some tasty recipes to add to your list that will help in easing the burden on your wallet.
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Working towards a better future
World Food Day encourages us to work together, to create a better and more sustainable future, while facing the challenges that affect global food insecurity.
One of those challenges is climate change, and throwing away less food is one way to reduce our carbon footprint and see less quality produce ending up in landfills.
CALCULATE YOUR WASTE
Supporting local communities
We’ve partnered with not-for-profit Food for Change, to bring you the IGA Food Rescue Program. This program connects our stores directly with their local food relief agency so that any unavoidable food waste will be donated to locals in need within their communities, in an effort to support and care for those suffering the consequences first hand.
To learn more about the IGA Food Rescue Program, click here
Repurposing your leftovers
There’s so much we throw away that can be reused and repurposed.
Here are some tasty recipes to add to your list that will help in easing the burden on your wallet.
Working towards a better future
World Food Day encourages us to work together, to create a better and more sustainable future, while facing the challenges that affect global food insecurity.
One of those challenges is climate change, and throwing away less food is one way to reduce our carbon footprint and see less quality produce ending up in landfills.
Supporting local communities
We’ve partnered with not-for-profit Food for Change, to bring you the IGA Food Rescue Program. This program connects our stores directly with their local food relief agency so that any unavoidable food waste will be donated to locals in need within their communities, in an effort to support and care for those suffering the consequences first hand.
To learn more about the IGA Food Rescue Program, click here
As of 2023, we’ve achieved:
9 Easy Hacks to Make Your Fruits and Vegetables Last Longer
Check out these easy-to-follow tips that save you money, so you can waste less and enjoy more with longer lasting and fresher food.
Fresh leafy greens
Simply store in a paper-lined container. The more they stay dry, the longer they last.
Spring onions and herbs spring to life
Store both in separate bottles of water in the fridge.
Crunchy carrots and celery
Clean, cut into sticks and put into bottles of water and store in fridge.
Storing a superfood – Avocado
Save the unused half side in a zip-lock bag for next day’s Toast.
Find out what you’re really throwing in the bin!
Try our Food Waste Calculator – an easy, interactive tool which provides an estimate of the total impact of a product across cost, energy and water consumption metrics.
These values have been calculated using a ‘Farm to Gate’ Life Cycle Assessment approach, encompassing impacts from farm, transport, processing and cooking.
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