Fighting Food Waste with Upcycling
Reclaim Foods
Maximises Efficiency
By utilising green technologies to convert surplus food into sustainable products, we do more with less.
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Australian farmers are our goal to help turn their food losses into sustainable commercial opportunities
are how many Australian families we want to help prevent food wastage
Reclaim Foods was created to redefine how we use unwanted food
Reclaim Foods was established with a mission to tackle food waste and its impact on the environment, economy, and society, both in Australia and globally. Our focus is on transforming organic waste into sustainable solutions and educating young Australians about the importance of reducing food waste. The key strategies to combat food waste include:
Reducing Food waste
Prevention is better than cure when it comes to tackling food waste. Our goal is to help Australians avoid generating more waste.
Repurposing surplus fruit and vegetables
As much as 25% of fruits and vegetables never leave the farm, costing Australian farmers $2.84 billion annually.
To address these challenges, we want to help farmers improve resource efficiency, create new innovative food opportunities and reduce food loss.
Reusing Food
When surplus food is produced, the best option is to keep it in the human food chain. Finding secondary markets, or donating the surplus to food rescue organisations, helps prevent additional resources being used to grow more food.
Circular Economy
It’s about moving away from our current linear economy (make, use, dispose) to one where our products, and the materials in them, are valued differently, creating new business and innovation opportunities.
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The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste (FLW): A $36.6 billion per annum opportunity
Reducing food loss and waste (FLW) presents opportunities to: address climate change increase food security, productivity and economic efficiency; and conserve energy and other resources. In Australia, we have a productive and profitable food and agribusiness industry...
Food Upcycling – An important solution to fighting food waste
Buying upcycled food is an easy way for anyone to prevent food waste. When surplus food is used to create healthy, delicious food products or ingredients it stops food wastage. It's a new way to tackle food waste because it's a consumer product-based solution, meaning...
The total landmass used to grow wasted food in Australia is larger than Victoria, which is over 25 million hectares
Australia faces a significant food waste challenge, throwing away roughly 7.6 million tonnes annually due to product specifications like quality and size and overproduction.
Reclaim Foods is committed to addressing this problem by using organic waste that would otherwise be discarded and transforming it into sustainable food products and ingredients that reduce food waste.
as enhancing Australia’s reputation as a sustainable food producer.”
Reducing food wastage has a threefold benefit
It saves money for farmers, companies and households.
The World Resources Institute recently reported that on average food waste reduction delivered a 14X Return on Investment (ROI) to the 700 companies involved in their study, 92X return for cities and a 250X return for countries. With the average Australian household food waste bill estimated at $3,800 p.a. Australian families also have a lot to gain.
It makes more food available for those in need.
Redistributing food that would otherwise be wasted will help feed more than 1 in 5 Australians who do not have adequate access to food. Reducing food loss and waste can help close the over 60% gap between food available today and food needed in 2050, thereby working toward eliminating hunger.
It cuts GHGs and reduces pressure on climate, water and land resources.
In Australia, about 13 million tonnes of CO2-e (carbon dioxide equivalent) are created from the landfill of organic waste. This represents about 3% of Australia’s total emissions. By diverting organic waste from landfill, we can transform organic waste into a valuable resource that enhances our agricultural soils, grows our economy and creates jobs. The Australian Organics Recycling Association estimates that an additional 2,682 jobs would be created in Australia if 80% of organic waste was diverted from landfills.