News

Cold storage research could put a freeze on red meat waste

25 October 2023

A new report shows inconsistent fridge temperatures and confusing cold storage advice could be contributing to meat waste in Aussie households.

Current Projects

Fight Food Waste: Consumer Fridge Behaviour and Waste Reduction of Red Meat

2021 (ongoing)

This project aims to provide new temperature and consumer data to understand how red meat wastage could be reduced in Australian households.

News

War on waste: A tale of two cities

01 September 2019

From edible cities to plastic pollution – two RMIT experts share their thoughts on sustainability issues across two continents.

News

Food selfies show an appetite for flexible student eating spaces

14 August 2019

Food selfies taken on campus can offer a whole new way to rethink flexible student spaces and help combat food waste, suggests a new study.

Blog

Food sharing with a 21st-century twist – and Melbourne’s a world leader

30 May 2018

Food sharing is experiencing a renaissance in cities around the world. By food sharing, we mean the collaborative growing, cooking, eating and distributing of food as well as sharing food-related skills, spaces and tools.

Blog

Food Sharing in Cities

31 October 2017

As cities grow in size and consumption, sharing has been suggested as a possible means to conserve resources, prevent waste and provide new social and economic relations.

News

Cultivation of a food sharing culture in Barcelona

24 July 2017

RMIT and Trinity College Dublin researcher Dr Ferne Edwards has spent the past few months harvesting food, distributing organic goods and joining strangers around communal dinner tables.

Blog

Three charts on: Australia’s declining taste for beef and growing appetite for chicken

09 June 2017

Australians were once world champion beef-eaters but now you’re much more likely to find chicken than steak on Australian dinner tables.

Blog

‘The urban’: a concept under stress in an interconnected world

27 June 2016

Are humans now an “urban species”? Do we now live in an “Urban Age”?