The future of our food system relies on our next move.
Rebuild soil.
Grow food.
Educate &
connect people.
OUR HEART & MISSION
WastePlant exists to support the highest possible food security and education across the world, through better food waste practices—promoting regeneration of depleted soils, better food diversity and access, and better waste and food-based education and community.
OUR APPROACH
We’re a for-purpose social enterprise, committed to creating community-based solutions for soil regeneration, food sovereignty and climate change, through intelligent and regenerative systems and education.
Our current waste
model is broken
A snapshot of food waste in Australia
In Australia alone, we’re creating a hefty 8.2 million tonnes of food waste per year - that’s around 350kg per person annually.
The sobering part is that the majority of this food waste is heading straight to landfill, where it’s doing no good for the environment.
*All numbers and information displayed are approximations, sourced from the Australian Government and waste authorities
Supporting a better, more sustainable way to live
Our planet needs more sustainable and intelligent solutions for food waste management, soil regeneration, soil and food education, and ultimately, for a more self-sufficient and decentralised food system for our towns and cities.
Food & green
waste diversion
Food production
& access
Engage & educate
community
Waste = Food
Redefining waste
Food waste is an incredibly valuable ingredient in the recipe of a healthy, balanced ecosystem and planet - and it deserves our full attention.
When composted, discarded food waste helps to rapidly rebuild soil health, creating a nutrient-rich and highly fertile growing environment, perfect for high-density food production.
Waste is a solution. Food waste helps to grow new food - it’s a closed loop.
Through the processes of vermiculture and growing healthy plants, we’re also drawing carbon down into the soil, significantly reducing harmful CO2 emissions. Food waste is a climate solution.
OUR APPROACH
A circular economy
As consumption recurs and rises, our world’s invaluable resources, such as local produce and fertile topsoil for food production dwindle alarmingly. Our approach to food and waste as a Society often resembles a linear form - we grow, we take, we consume and we discard.
The right way forward for our food and food waste systems globally is circular.
We simply must, as humankind, move from a linear to a circular economy, where waste is embraced as a resource that can be recovered and reintegrated into our food systems, for greater economic, environmental and social sustainability.