Season Four of AFGC series released

Season Four of Sustaining Australia TV, the series created by the Australian Food and Grocery Council, has been released online. The show features expert interviews and behind-the-scenes stories about Australia’s food and grocery manufacturing industry.

The environmental impact of food waste and the role of packaging in reducing that impact is one of the stories in the new season. It features the work of the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) on finding ways to use food resources once regarded as waste as well as the CRC’s latest research into the role of food packaging.

Stephen Lapidge, CEO of the Fight Food Waste CRC, said to Sustaining Australia TV that while many consumers think food packaging is a bigger environmental issue than food waste, the opposite is true.

“If you reduce packaging too much then you will increase food waste and there’s a lot more environmental damage created by increasing food waste than creating the packaging,” Lapidge said.

There are four episodes in Sustaining Australia TV, covering the biggest issues in Australian food and grocery manufacturing, such as the future of manufacturing, the role of regional businesses, building circular economies and reducing emissions. Stories filmed around the country feature interviews with leaders of brands and businesses such as Arnott’s, Caldermeade Farm, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Essity, Frucor Suntory, Sunrice, SPC, Tip Top, Americold, Dematic, Packserv and APR Plastics. It also features experts from ANZ Bank’s Food, Beverage and Agribusiness Insights team and the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures.

Find the Fight Food Waste CRC story and the rest of the Sustaining Australia TV series on the AFGC website or the AFGC YouTube channel.

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