Eating locally is only better if it’s seasonal! It’s better to purchase imported fruits and vegetables grown in season rather than buying local off-season.

Fruits and veggies grown in heated greenhouses produce 3 x as many carbon emissions as open-field production.

Avoid foods that are transported via air. Food transported by air releases around 50 times as much carbon dioxide as food transported by sea.

Eliminating global food waste would save more than 4 million tonnes of CO₂ a year, which is the equivalent of taking one in four cars off the road.

When you throw your food into household garbage, it turns into methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

The Australian government estimates food waste costs the Australian economy $20 billion per year.

One third of the world’s food is lost or wasted — 1.05 billion tonnes in 2022 alone. Food waste accounts for 8–10% of all global greenhouse gas emissions (UNEP, 2024).

Food scraps and yard waste together make up more than 30% of what we throw away in Australia.

Australian households throw away 2.5 million tonnes of edible food each year! That’s almost 300 kg per person.

Only 14% of plastic is recycled in Australia.

Less than 10% of plastic gets recycled globally.

Plastic packaging is sometimes needed to sustain food quality and safety, however, many products are unnecessarily packaged for consumers’ convenience.

Packaging preserves our food but also causes more waste than needed. Plastic packaging will languish in landfill for millennia, while slowly leaking harmful toxins into the soil.