Cooking for Change: A Zero Waste Event With Rescued Food and Composting to Tackle Food Waste Crisis

In Australia, we waste 7.6 millions tonnes of food per year - and one third of that comes directly from homes.
At Compost Connect, we’ve long seen food rescue and composting as essential in tackling our nation’s food waste crisis - and the recent ‘Cooking for Change’ event at Suncoast Fresh in Brisbane was a shining example of this.
Hosted by BioPak, OzHarvest and one of Australia’s most loved chefs, Alastair McLeod, the Cooking for Change event shone a light on a range of initiatives that are changing the way restaurants and businesses tackle food waste - like Compost Connect.
The meals created on the day were distributed to charities around Brisbane to feed those in need.