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About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the climate and consumers’ wallets

About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the climate and consumers’ wallets

You saw it at Thanksgiving, and you’ll likely see it at your next holiday feast: piles of unwanted food – unfinished second helpings, underwhelming kitchen experiments and the like – all dressed up with no place to go, except the back of the refrigerator. With luck, hungry relatives will discover some of it before the inevitable […] … learn more→

Waste not, want not at JCU

James Cook University is the first university in the world to install a Bio-Regen unit, a machine that takes food scraps and turns them into a liquid bio-fertiliser. The system, installed at JCU’s Townsville campus, is compact, efficient and overcomes the problems associated with commercial composting systems. The Bio-Regen system has the potential to revolutionise […] … learn more→