Designing out food waste in March 

We hope you will be able to join us for the next installment of our food waste event series next week.

This month we're: 

• designing out waste at Melbourne Design Week
• planning for our Melbourne Knowledge Week event in April
• updating you on grants and funding 
• sharing insights from 'Shaping a world-class circular dairy sector for Victoria'. 

Warm regards, 
CEBIC team


 #VicGoesCircular

Events

Designing out food waste at Melbourne Design Week

Join us on Tuesday 30 March 2021 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm for our live-streamed Melbourne Design Week event.   

Delivered in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria  at this dynamic event and exhibition we will explore how ‘designing out waste’ can help Victoria meet its target of halving food waste by 2030 - through intervention, collaboration and creative exploration of waste, supply chains, manufacturing, and materials.   

Smart and circular at Melbourne Knowledge Week

Join us on Thursday 29 April 2021 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm to explore how data and technology can help cut waste and enable circular business models. 

Learn more about the circular economy, hear our speakers share their experiences using data and technology to drive change in their businesses and be inspired to think about how technology can create a more sustainable future.   
Hosted by Jodie Bricout, leading circular economy expert and founding member of the Circular Economy Innovation Advisory Committee, this event is presented by Sustainability Victoria’s Circular Economy Business Innovation Centre and Planet Ark Australian Circular Economy (ACE) Hub, and is part of Melbourne Knowledge Week, 26 April to 2 May 2021, proudly presented by the City of Melbourne.  

Grants and funding

Other circular economy funding

• The fund aims to accelerate markets, confidence and demand for recycled products in Victoria.

These grants are part of the Recycling Victoria policy funding.

• Supporting community-based projects that empower the community to reduce waste.

These grants are part of the City of Melbourne's Waste Minimisation and Innovation Fund 2021. 

Research and insights 

Shaping a world-class circular dairy sector for Victoria
 

• Opportunities to reduce dairy waste, such as new technologies in processing, modern milk treatments to extend shelf life, and packaging adjustments

• Opportunities to better use dairy waste, for example, anaerobic digestion on site or aggregating whey in central location for processing 

• Barriers and roadblocks to circularity, such as how scale, cost and location can make finding solutions challenging.  

• How to leverage opportunities and overcome barriers, such as supporting regional aggregation of by-products from small and medium processors or building more transparent waste stream data 

• Supporting better partnerships, such as creating opportunities for those working in different parts of the value chain to solve problems together  

• Areas that could benefit from government support, for example, co-design of regulation to reduce waste and encourage greater uptake of waste products.  

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