Australia’s leading food rescue organisation, OzHarvest fed more than ten thousand people across Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Newcastle and Perth yesterday at Think.Eat.Save events held simultaneously across the country, a collaboration with the United Nations to tackle the issues of food loss and waste, food security and sustainable food systems.
Some of the nation’s top chefs including Neil Perry, Matt Moran, Peter Gilmore, Guillaume Brahimi, Somer Sivrioglu, Giovanni Pilu, Maeve O’Meara and Hamish Ingham, internationally acclaimed chef Diego Muñoz, as well as mayors, senators, MPs and celebrities united at the events to take a stance against food waste by serving members of the public a free, delicious and hearty hot meal made from surplus produce that would have otherwise ended up as landfill.
Food waste is currently costing Australians up to $10 billion each year, while two million people still rely on food relief.
What a wonderful idea, we are all about education here at BioPak and are very proud to play a part in this movement, even if only a small part. We are exciting to get more and more involved.
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It is our customers who enable us to support projects like these and we want to share OzHArvest's thank you with you:
"On behalf of the entire team at OzHarvest, we want to sincerely thank you and your wonderful team at Biopak [and your wonderful customers] for providing the perfect enviro-friendly disposables to OzHarvest for this year’s Think.Eat.Save event. Thanks to your support, our chefs and volunteers were able to successfully feed 5,000 people a beautiful meal at Martin Place and raise awareness about food waste, food security and sustainability." OzHarvest CEO & Founder, Ronni Kahn