Craig Reucassel confronts Aussies about the amount of food we’re throwing away. He gives the suburban street challengers some expert tips for ways to reduce food waste; & uncovers the truth about compostable food packaging.
Continuing the War on Waste presenter Craig Reucassel takes to the streets to confront everyday Aussies about the astonishing amount of food we throw away.
To demonstrate the size of the problem he sets up a fifty-metre-long table loaded with 500 kilograms of food. How many families would it take to generate this amount of food waste?
Craig also catches up with design students at the University of NSW. They’ve been set a challenge to re-design some of our most commonly used products, to see if they can be made easier to recycle. From the ubiquitous soy sauce plastic fish to bread bags and stickers on fruit - will any of the students’ clever new designs make their way to the supermarket shelves?
Science communicator Lee Constable joins Craig to demonstrate the environmental impacts of food waste and Craig shares some expert tips on how to reduce it in the home.
Craig revisits our farmers to find out whether supermarket cosmetic standards are still leading to fruit and vegetables being wasted.
Production credit: A Lune Media Australia Production for ABC. Principal production investment from Screen Australia and ABC. Financed with support from Screen NSW. Director Jodi Boylan. Executive Producers Jodi Boylan, David Galloway and Leonie Lowe. ABC Acting Head, Factual and Culture Richard Huddleston and Commissioning Editor, Factual Stephen Oliver.
Craig Reucassel looks at the environmental cost of disposable fashion. He meets waste warriors battling to rescue unwanted fashion items; and goes undercover to find out where some of our recycled clothes might be ending up.
In the final episode, presenter Craig Reucassel will turn his attention to the environmental cost of our disposable fashion habits.
He’ll meet a ‘fast fashion’ influencer in an effort to understand why we’re buying so much cheap clothing, and then throwing so much of it away. Can he encourage all of us to wear our clothes longer and value them more, so they don’t end up in landfill?
He’ll meet some waste warriors who are on the front line in the battle to rescue unwanted fashion items from going to waste. In Melbourne he visits Second Stitch - a social enterprise run by women from diverse backgrounds, that encourages clothing repair in an effort to extend the life of clothes. In Sydney he visits Thread Together, an organisation that receives unwanted new clothes from retailers and re-distributes them to those in need.
As well, Craig goes undercover to find out where some of our clothes sent for recycling might really be ending up. How much is actually being recycled, and how much still ends up as waste?
Craig meets Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to ask whether politicians are doing enough to address our national waste crisis. Could they be investing more to help develop recycling infrastructure in Australia, and what stricter controls can they place on the wasteful practices of manufacturers and retailers?
Production credit: A Lune Media Australia Production for ABC. Principal production investment from Screen Australia and ABC. Financed with support from Screen NSW. Director Jodi Boylan. Executive Producers Jodi Boylan, David Galloway and Leonie Lowe. ABC Acting Head, Factual and Culture Richard Huddleston and Commissioning Editor, Factual Stephen Oliver.
RIP fashion waste! War on Waste pop-up fast fashion graveyard at Splendour in the Grass
With 227 million kilos of clothing going to landfill in Australia each year, the award-winning series, War on Waste, is drawing attention to this crisis with a powerful and thought-provoking Fast Fashion Graveyard activation at this weekend’s Splendour in the Grass festival.
Located opposite the Forum and Comedy Club, the Fast Fashion Graveyard symbolises the discarded clothing items that end up in landfill. With many Australians’ purchasing festival or concert outfits, often from fast fashion retailers, this activation highlights the harsh reality of their fashion choices.
Festival goers are invited to walk through the Fast Fashion Graveyard and read the harrowing fashion waste statistics displayed on the tombstones. The activation aims to encourage festival goers to consider the environmental and social impact of their clothing choices and empower them to be part of the solution.
Australia’s fast fashion waste crisis is just one of the three issues passionate planet advocate and prankster Craig Reucassel investigates during the new season of War on Waste which premieres on Tuesday 25 July at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.
War on Waste host, Craig Reucassel, says “Fast fashion has exploded! We’ve moved to ultra-fast fashion, even though 30% of clothing in the average wardrobe has not been worn in the last year. We’re throwing out nearly 10kg of fashion per person each year. To make only the cotton clothes that we throw out each year, would take as much water as there is in Sydney Harbour. Meanwhile, over 60% of our clothes are made from plastic derived from fossil fuels. Through this activation, we hope to engage the festival community in meaningful conversations about the impact of fast fashion and inspire them to embrace more sustainable and ethical practices. Buy less and wear it longer!”
The Fast Fashion Graveyard will be open from Friday 21 to Sunday 23 July at the Splendour in the Grass festival. Recycled or repurposed materials have been used to create this activation, and following the festival, the materials will be repurposed or recycled.
I wonder if Ice Break ice coffee also uses PVC for their bottles as the logo on the back the new ARL says to put it in the bin .
Also in the first episode, they didn’t mention all the aluminium cans are sent overseas for processing as Australia doesn’t have the aluminium smelters from what i understand . Sent to Netherlands, Korea etc . They only mentioned plastic bottles.
