Shine - Anglican Retirement Villages

the seven
deadly food
Wastage sins
These facts and figures
from the OzHarvest
website are terrifying
because they are true.
Even in a rich country
like Australia, many
people are not able to
eat regularly.
1
1 million Australian
children go to
school without
breakfast, or they go
to bed without dinner.
this need not be
the case.
2
Australians throw
away almost 3
million tonnes of food
worth $5.2 billion a
year, with the average
household wasting
$616 of food (or 136kgs
per person) each year.
3 Australians
discard up to 20%
of the food they
purchase. that is equal
to 1 out of every 5 bags
of groceries bought.
I had food on my table and a roof over my head... what
more did I need? What motivated me was the notion that
I had everything so what more could I do? Ronni Kahn
4
10% of
greenhouse gas
emissions in rich
countries come from
growing food that is
never eaten.
5
the rich countries
have nearly twice
as much food as is
required by the
nutritional needs of
their populations.
6
Less than a
quarter of the
food that is wasted in
rich countries would
feed the world’s one
billion hungry people.
7
Bread and other
cereal products
thrown away in
households alone would
be enough to lift 30
million of the world’s
hungry out of
malnourishment.
meat, whole salmon, fresh wagyu beef
or Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream—all within
the expiry date.”
ozHarvest receives donations from
top lawyers and accountants, schools
and coffee shops, hotels such as the
Four seasons and the westin and food
companies such as Cadbury, Qantas
Flight Catering, supermarkets and
butchers. the 175 regular donors also
include institutions like the sydney eye
Hospital and the nsw parliament!
Just in case you were thinking of
donating the leftovers from the next
family function, ronni said, “we can
only accept food from professionally
catered events and licensed food
caterers—not individual homes.”
Donated food comes from a wide
variety of places, and is distributed to a
huge range of charities—around 240 in
the sydney and wollongong area. these
charities provide food for those escaping
domestic violence, the homeless, families
on low incomes and people going
through drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
ozHarvest sydney now has a fleet of 8
vehicles which delivers 266,000 meals a
month. ozHarvest delivers 333,000 meals
per month australia-wide with a fleet of
12 vans.
since it began, ozHarvest has provided
close to 12 million meals and rescued
more than 3.5 million tonnes of food
from landfill. all from the initiative of a
woman who wanted to “do something
more with my life.”
you can helP too
ozHarVest is aLways looking for
volunteers for all aspects of its work.
some volunteering includes database
work, logistics coordination and general
office work. other volunteers are involved
in raising awareness at produce markets
and expos, and driving and riding in the
food pick-up and delivery vans. it can be
as varied as helping out at special events
or washing out the food containers!
Find out more
If you are interested in becoming a
volunteer email info@ozharvest.org,
visit www.ozharvest.org or phone
02 9516 0587.
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