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Your Business
is Food

If you own or manage a food business, reducing the amount of food you throw out will help you cut costs and increase profits.

Food loss prevention hierarchy

1

Prevention

Prevent edible food from going in any bin (strategies include prevention of plate waste, over ordering, spoilage, damage etc)
2

Repurpose 

Donate surplus food to a food donation agency 
3

Divert

Recycle food waste into animal feed or compost
Some of the ways your food business could benefit from preventing food loss and maximise profits include:
Ongoing stock management including labelling

 

Better food handling to reduce spoilage

 

Smaller serving sizes to reduce plate waste

 

Better labelling of storage techniques to educate the consumer

What we can do to support your food business?

We're helping business reduce their food waste through the Love Food Hate Waste NSW Your Business is Food Program for food manufacturers, retailers restaurants, cafes, pubs, clubs and hotels.

Businesses who sign up can get:

A free waste assessment to highlight any food loss occurring in their business

A free report to assist and support businesses to undertake waste avoidance actions and maximise profits

Access to grants to support infrastructure to reduce food loss

Free promotion of the initiatives your business is undertaking

Register your interest now

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Are you a food manufacturer?

We are looking for 25 local food manufacturers to participate in an new program funded by the NSW Government’s Environmental Protection Authority...

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Fighting Food Waste during COVID 19 Pandemic

Many food businesses across the Northern Rivers region needed to adapt their businesses quickly and efficiently in order to survive. NE Waste undertake a small research project in the region to highlight some of the initiatives, the challenges faced, and how these businesses helped fight food waste in the process.

Case Studies

NORTHERN RIVERS FOOD BUSINESSES
SALUMI AUSTRALIA

Salumi Australia is an artisan manufacturing business based in the heart of the Northern Rivers. Operations began in 2010 making a range of cured and fermented products - known in Italy as salumi - from free range Australian pork.

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BYRON GOURMET MUSHROOMS

The rapid reduction in hospitality and wholesale demand due to COVID, helped drive new initiatives to expand the business’s market through retail as well as direct to householders.

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SUNCOAST FRESH

A downturn of 80% in our business in the first few weeks meant we need to quickly redefine ourselves to survive. We now offer a fresh produce solution to suit our community’s needs in COVID times and beyond.

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HARVEST RESTAURANT NEWRYBAR

By facilitating the flow of produce though the different levels or our business including bakery, deli, restaurant and veg boxes to takeaway meals we’ve managed to avoid food waste and keep supporting our local community.

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About
 

Love Food Hate Waste is a food waste avoidance education program under the NSW Environment Protection Authority’s Waste Less, Recycle More initiative. It aims to support food businesses with simple steps and handy resources to avoid food waste, educate staff and customers and promote your business.

North Easte Waste

This project is a NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, Waste Less Recycle More initiative funded from the waste levy.