Join the mailing list from NSW Government to receive emails about the Join the Love Food Challenge in September, and receive a free food saving kit. (Kits are limited)
The kit includes:
• A reusable shopping bag
• Fruit and vegetable bags
• Use It Up Tape
• Food covers
• Bag clips
Their FB post which shows the picture of what you get in the kit.
Solid
@OP, Thank you :)
Nice one, thanks OP!
FB really?
I think in these day of age gen y, z and a care more about food wastage than previous generations
What are the plastic things?
The circles are food container covers, the rectangles are bag clips to seal food.
Taxpayer sponsored future landfill
Actually I got a little bin for food waste inherited in rental but I'm not sure how to use that properly. Will somehow here know about that bin?
FOGO, IYKYK.
Our local supermarkets have free compostable bags to put your fruit & veg in. These are the perfect size for the small food waste bin the council has provided.
After reading about FOGO fails in the paper last week, and thinking about all the plastic packaging in the pantry that I can't avoid, I've been wondering whether or not we could use collected FOGO to create bioplastics and mandate that food packaging cannot be made from fossil fuels/virgin plastic. WDYT? it would mean we had a source of biodegradable plastic that doesn't require any land clearing. The circular economy I keep hearing about.
I thought these where an assorted condoms on a preview photo.
Even the yellow one might be a bit big 😭
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You are not alone, the thumbnail does look like a birth control kit. Had to read the title a few times to relate.
Anything's a condom if you use it right
Drop in the ocean.
It's the same tactic plastic companies used to keep selling single use bottles and containers: shift the responsibility. Run a campaign telling people to recycle and not to litter.
At the end of the day, I do what I can, but as long as selfish people exist, then meaningful change will need to start with the big corporations.
Spot on - a box ticking exercise.
The govt. needs to ban as much plastic as possible - particularly in fruit and veg at the big supermarkets. Make it all loose pick and provide paper bags instead of plastic. Going to be challenging for their anti-theft cameras, but these are multi-billion dollar corporations- i’m sure they can figure it out.
As for smaller operators being allowed to stamp “reuse me” so they can get away with giving out plastic bags… 🙄
And when they do regulate, it needs to be logical and consistent. rant incoming…
I don’t often buy takeaway drinks, but I did in Sydney recently. I got a plastic cup… with a flimsy paper straw disintegrating halfway through. Why? Because NSW banned plastic straws, but not plastic cups. If the aim is reducing waste, why single out one and ignore the other? Ban both or it’s just tokenistic.
Same story with Woolworths. Paper bags only at the checkout? Great, I’m all for it. But inside those bags? Plastic-wrapped everything. I end up carrying oats wrapped in plastic, inside a flimsy paper bag. Where’s the sense in that?
Meanwhile, in the Philippines—a country with far fewer resources—they manage to collect and reuse about half of their glass bottles. If the Philippines can achieve that, then why can’t one of the wealthiest countries on Earth create a reusable container system?
/rant
Pilipines is so polluted lol
@Kongzi: It is, and yet they still reuse nearly half of their glass bottles… What does that say about us?
Probably just that we'd be nearly twice as polluted if we didn't have such well funded landfills.
I wouldnt use the rationale that im only making a small difference so why bother?
Its the small grassroots, that grow into fields, then become forests. So keep up the pressure on large companies and countries. So when the overwhelming consensus changes they will react for financial reasons. Persistence is key in my opinion. Sometimes these changes need generational.
If you think this is in vain, then what else can we do? Ignore the problem bc its not my problem?
I don’t think that was the point of @besttechadvisor’s post.
Everyone can take individual responsibility for their own waste and do their bit individually, but ultimately it will come down to corporations to make real change, and if they don’t then governments need to regulate (and enforce) them to do so.
This program is about food waste which is a bit different to plastic waste, but the food waste from individuals is insignificant when compared to foodwaste from corporations.
I wouldnt use the rationale that im only making a small difference so why bother?
That's not my rationale. I did upvote the bargain, but if you look at the Pareto Principle, this is definitely doing 80% of the work for 20% of the results.
My rationale is "I do what I can, but as long as selfish people exist, then meaningful change will need to start with the big corporations."
Its the small grassroots, that grow into fields, then become forests
If by grass roots you mean movements that put pressure on corps and government, then sure. But if you mean changing everyone's individual habits, having tried to get my share-house to just farkin' recycle properly in my entire 20's, I'm much more pessimistic of that approach…
Sadly corporations have financial reasons as their top priority. Understandable since it means sustainability of their balance sheets and resilience from their competitors.
So using that same thinking, if you penalise your housemates for not doing their chores theyll happily obliged to do chores or recycle 😅
Reduce waste by making more of it
It's a Government program funded by taxpayers.
Logic just doesn't enter into the equation.
I use old ice cream tubs to collect kitchen waste then dump into compost bin. The council provided bench Top bin too big
Me too! Except I bury mine in the yard. So many surprise plants sprout up. Had a dozen avocado trees at one stage; oops.
You can chop up the avocado seeds into smaller pieces. They wont pop up and theyll also break down faster
better than nothing
Disagree. Nothing would waste less tax dollars.
I can just imagine the dozens of meetings and project managers and consultants involved in putting together this plastic Temu-esque junk kit.
They’ve been Ozbargained! None left 😢
signed up cheers