How can we reduce residential food waste
in high density urban environments?
Connecting education and industry
To solve real-world problems |
UNSW Grand Challenges |
OzHarvest |
Shaping responses to the complex issues facing humanity, the Grand Challenges Program puts UNSW’s research squarely into the real world. Each challenge engages scholars, policymakers and the public through a series of critical discussions, debates, events and activities about one of the tests of our time.
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Did you know 1/3 of the world's food gets wasted? Wasting food wastes everything: water, land, energy, labour, money & love. OzHarvest is Australia’s leading food rescue organisation, collecting quality excess food from commercial outlets and delivering it directly to more than 1300 charities supporting people in need across the country.
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The Hackathon Event.
At the inaugural Grand Challenge on Sept 2-3rd 2019,
UNSW and OzHarvest posed a real-world challenge to students to develop practical and innovative solutions to Fight Food Waste.