Not going to waste
The volume of food binned in aged care homes is shocking. But there are effective solutions to lessen the leftovers.
Each week, over 3 kilograms of food per resident ends up in the bin
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The figures are quite staggering. More than 251,000 tonnes of food is wasted in Australian institutions a year, representing 3.5 per cent of all food waste.
In aged care alone, each of the country’s 2,600-or so residential facilities chucks around $1,000-worth of food in the bin each week.
“That works out to be 3.5 kilograms of food per resident,” Dr Kate Sansome tells Australian Ageing Agenda.
Sansome is one of a team of researchers at the University of Adelaide leading a project to understand t...
