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      Closing the Loop on Food Waste: Stakeholder Views and Experiences from Southeast Queensland, Australia

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          Every year in Australia, the household, commercial and industry sectors generate more than five million tonnes of food waste, with the majority of it ending up in landfills that are costly to run and diminishing in availability. There are urgent calls for effective waste management practices to better address the challenges related to increasing volumes of food waste. This study evaluates potential food waste collection and composting initiatives that will ensure the implementation of the appropriate policies and technologies, and best practice of utilizing food waste as a natural resource. A series of semi-structured interviews were conducted with practitioners from the Southeast Queensland waste industry to gain insights on the challenges and opportunities for implementing a Food Organics, Garden Organics (FOGO) system. The interviews revealed five key themes: levies and taxes, capital investment challenges, lack of capacity, contract inefficiencies, and separate waste streams. Organisations and companies in the waste industry heavily rely on funding in order to technologically advance. There is a divergence of attention between technology and policy. Advancement of technology grows faster than the policies that regulate the appropriate use and level of effectiveness of the introduced technology. Both policy and technological changes need to occur simultaneously for Queensland to evolve and develop a social-economic system that favours a non-wasteful and sustainable future.

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              Journal
              Waste
              Waste
              MDPI AG
              2813-0391
              September 2023
              July 11 2023
              : 1
              : 3
              : 640-653
              Article
              10.3390/waste1030038
              6d1f6ca4-3b8e-4a98-a79d-06bf399df8ff
              © 2023

              https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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