Embrace 'ugly' fruit and compost: cutting back on food waste

Australians discard $8bn worth of edible food each year, wasting resources and creating methane. Our new series Life Swaps looks at ways to reduce your food footprintImagine filling five shopping bags with fresh fruit and veggies, paying for the lot and then dumping one entire bulging bag in the bin. Sounds crazy? That’s the reality of how much food Australians waste – up to 20% of everything we buy, according to FoodWise.
The $8bn worth of edible food we collectively turf each year