Food waste

Sydney is the city have many good and wonderful food. However, Australia is the city waste many food per annual. According from the OzHarvest (which charity which collects food from businesses ), it shows that there are around 4 million tonnes of food will send to land fill per annual. Those food were worth around $7.8 billion.

The below table show the estimate of  household will waste in each type of the food, which is purchased without consume. There are two main reasons that the consumer will waste the food is that the food will left in the fridge too longer which can not eat and the other reason is the people can not finish their meals.

The above figure show that the Australian people will cause a lot of economic and energy lost due to the food waste. As we also can see in the below charts, the food waste become the most important source of the rubbish in NSW. However, the recycle rate was the lowest in the different sectors. Therefore , the government should encourage the food saving and food waste recycle. The citizen can consider to food donation to the charity to the needy. 

Reference:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-08/food-waste-value-australia/4993930

http://www.ozharvest.org/what-we-do/environment-facts/#_ftn1