BREAKING DOWN AUSTRALIA'S $9.8 BILLION FOOD WASTE BILL
According to Rabobank's 2019 Food Waste Report:
* Australians have reduced their food waste by $700 million from last year.
* A total of $8.9 billion of food was wasted in 2018, down from $9.6 billion in 2017 and $10 billion in 2016.
* Australians have reduced their food waste by $160 per household (In 2017, an average of $1050 of food wasted compared to $890 in 2018).
* We're still wasting $74-a-month on food waste.
* 86 per cent of Aussie households still waste food every week.
* 80 per cent of Aussies are annoyed when they waste food and 78 per cent are annoyed when others waste food.
* On average Australia's are spending $151-a-week on food.
* There are 14 per cent who say they waste zero food, meaning they eat or repurpose all of their food.
* The research found that City dwellers waste more ($995 per year) than their rural counterparts ($739).
* For consumers who have a higher household income, they are more likely to buy produce directly, check where their food is produced and be willing to pay more for food produced locally - but also waste more than others, averaging 14.6 per cent.
* People in Victoria made the biggest waste improvement in 2018, reducing waste by almost $300-a-year per household to a total of $910.
* NSW residents also improved their waste output, but came in as the nation's highest wasters in 2018 at $922 per household.
* Millennials remain the most wasteful generation, wasting about $1215, compared to $848 for Gen X, and $430 for baby boomers.
* Baby boomers remain the most likely to be annoyed by their own (87 per cent) and others' (85 per cent) food waste and care the most about reducing waste (85 per cent).
* Generation Y and Z are willing to pay more for food that is producer in an environmentally sustainable way and are humane and organic.
