Resources to reduce food waste in your operations

Together with our Members, we’re already making a measurable difference.

Over three years, we've worked with our Members to save $57 million, reduce food waste by 13%, repurpose 982,000 tonnes of food, reduce co2-e emissions by 505,000 tonnes – equivalent to taking 210,000 cars off the road for a year, and donate the equivalent of 254 million meals to food rescue organisations.

Members can explore the range of included and upgrade package options to help you save food, unlock opportunities, improve efficiencies, reduce costs, and join supply chain transformation.

Choose the packages, resources and mode of support that suits you. These are offering as a mix of self-guided, small group, or 1:1 subject to your membership.

Member resources

Food Waste Maturity Assessment

Understand where your business is on your food waste reduction journey and uncover the most impactful opportunities.

 

Getting started with measurement

A simple tool to capture food waste data, identify hotspots and build a baseline for reporting progress over time.

 

Excellence Hub            Level 1

Build foundational food waste capability with practical tools to understand readiness, measure waste and identify priority actions.

 

The Great Unwaste consumer behaviour change campaign

Use campaign assets and behaviour change resources to help Australians reduce food waste at home and make every ingredient count.

Open-access resources:

Hospitality Hub

Access practical hospitality resources to help kitchens measure waste, engage teams and reduce avoidable food waste day-to-day - saving food and unlocking value.

Upcycling guide for food manufacturers

Explore practical pathways to turn suitable surplus, by-products and unavoidable waste streams into higher-value uses.

SME SOLUTION CENTRE

Rethinking your packaging? Get independent expert advice, dollar-for-dollar research funding, and access to 11 national labs to trial the change before you scale it.

Upgrade packages:

Excellence Hub

Move from early action to more structured improvement, with resources that help teams embed better food waste practices, build consistent tracking habits, and turn early wins into repeatable, sustained results.

Governance Hub

Strengthen leadership, accountability and reporting around food waste with resources that help embed food waste reduction into business strategy, governance processes and organisational decision-making.

On-site Sprints

On-site Sprints for cafes, restaurant and hospitality businesses

Join a small group, guided-sprint to measure, reduce and rethink food waste in cafes, restaurants, venues and catering operations.

On-site Sprints for food manufacturers

Undertake a focused, data-led sprint to identify site-level food waste hotspots and turn findings into practical reduction actions.

bespoke solutions

We can work with you to shape bespoke support that responds to your business, sector and stage of the food waste journey. This may include tailored diagnostics, facilitation, supply chain engagement, staff capability building or project support to help turn opportunities into practical action.