Category: Environment

Love food hate waste

The opportunities of food waste from global to local

Food waste generates 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions and costs Australia $36 billion a year. In landfill it generates emissions and yet is a valuable resource that can be used to generate energy, improve soil health or feed chickens. Amanda will outline the challenges for NSW as it shifts to separating food waste and the steps being taken to get there. 

About the Speaker

Amanda Kane

Amanda is the Organics Manager for the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA). Having delivered a $100 million program to make organics recycling a truly circular system in NSW, Amanda and her team are currently working on the design and delivery of new programs to deliver on commitments for net zero emissions of organics waste from 2030.

Find out more about
SCRAP TOGETHER
 
Community education program run by the EPA helping councils make the most of FOGO (Food Organics / Garden Organics).

11 August 2022

Nature is for everyone – and needs us all!

Chris will make the case for more people – a wider array than those who might see themselves as greenies – understand what nature means to them in their lives, and taking a role in protecting it.
In addition, environment organisations need to be more proactive about reaching diverse communities in the fight to make conservation a high order public policy issue.

About Chris Gambian

Chris has been a trade unionist, community organiser and campaigner for over 25 years. He’s also been an NGO board member and the Labor candidate in the Federal seat of Banks in the 2016 and 2019 elections.
Since 2019 he claims he has had the extraordinary privilege to lead the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, an organisation that represents over 180 conservation organisations in NSW as an effective and powerful voice for nature.

More about Chris

chrisgambian.com.au

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