Food Waste Management Problems in Australia Issues 2022

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Introduction

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Managing food waste in a country such as Australia is one of the complex
strategies because there is the involvement of a high number of entities that are
engaged. This comes from areas such as producing, transporting, selling, in distribution
and also when it comes to food disposal. One of the big roles that that the country is
facing in its normal natural environment, legislative state and policies concerning
human health requirements since they happen to make the idea more complex. All
households are also key players at large in this issue concerning food waste
(Aschemann-Witzel et, al. 2015 p. 6464).
Australia is one of the countries which is focusing its strategies on reducing food
wastage problems. The supplied sufficient food is intended to eliminate cases of hunger,
insufficient food and improper distribution of food to its target population. Food waste
refers to a liquid or solid food that is imported for consumption but does not directly or
indirectly reach the target consumer and ends up being thrown away. This may include
the food which is edible and can be consumed but ends up being disposed of, and also
may contain the inedible food which is the one that cannot be consumed due to that is
considered as the undesirables (Medín et, al. 2017, p.44). When adopting the stated
definition, the term food waste has excluded the food which is manufactured or that
which is produced in and then is exported to other countries because they end up being
waste of those countries.
Australia is implementing a strategy that may provide a framework by use of
collective support is targeting to achieve its goal of halving food waste in vision 2030.
This strategy will be based on a global platform since its one of the main development
goal in 2030. It is aimed at ensuring that the consumption is sustainable and that the
goal has a predictable pattern of transforming the country into curbing hunger. This will
help in bringing in the effect according to the obligation of the Australian government

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that is under the framework of United Nations that is aimed at reduction of gaseous
emission and having a primary goal of diversion of the food waste that comes from
landfills (Aschemann-Witzel et, al. 2015 p. 6461). The country has a highly
sophisticated and well-developed approaches which are used to manufacture, produce,
sell and distribute food. Regardless of the approaches, the country has a limited range
involving the foodservice and hospitality industry, scarce rescue food donations and
fewer community groups which can help in the provision of sufficient food supply.
Though the system has abundant food supply which averages its volume to $20
billion annually, some impacts respond from the environment that promotes waste of
food through the wasted resources including water, land energy and also fuels which can
be used to distribute and produce food. This goes to a point whereby landfills are
disposed of leading to other impacts on the environment that involves food waste issues.
These values and volumes of wasted food lead to a high number of prevailing
opportunities that can be used to benefit the consumer by making sure they avoid
wasting food or even to a situation where the food can be repurposed (Choi 2016,
p.396). This is an approach that is being implemented hoping for its success since it has
this idea of using circular economy criteria that involves the use of resources for a long
period as possible while making sure that negative effects are at a minimum level.
In countries such as the United States have better strategies that they practice to
extend the resources which seem to be wasted. One of them is that they have FAO
which is an organization that helps in the reduction of food wastage within the country.
A network strategy that is aimed at a food-wasting reduction, I aimed at agri-food,
agriculture and also forestry. The policy includes restricting the supermarkets from
disposing of the food that has been unsold in landfills. In the Netherlands, there is a
policy of no waste the waste that has to be followed and it’s within the legislation, the