Helping Residents Waste Less
OzHarvest has been tackling food waste for over 20 years. Our household campaign, Use It Up, is founded in behavioural science and includes an innovative tool proven to cut food waste by 40%.
Use It Up Resources:
- Includes assets that can be co-branded
- Saves resource recovery fees
- Compliment FOGO programs
Helping Residents Waste Less
OzHarvest has been tackling food waste for over 20 years. Our household campaign, Use It Up, is founded in behavioural science and includes an innovative tool proven to cut food waste by 40%.
Use It Up Resources:
- Includes assets that can be co-branded
- Saves resource recovery fees
- Compliment FOGO programs
Ready-Made Resources for Your Community
Council Event Kits
Customisable campaign tools and assets aligned with key environmental days, holidays, seasons and events.
FOGO Waste Packs
A waste hierarchy approach with supporting collateral to accompany FOGO messaging and waste packs.
Use It Up Tape®
A great giveaway for sustainability events, key environmental dates, community events and workshop prizes.
Why Use It Up?
✓ Informed by behaviour change research by BehaviourWorks, Monash University
✓ Use It Up Tape is proven to reduce household food waste by over 40%
✓ Successfully rolled out by the Netherlands Nutrition Centre (HL) & trialled in Germany and USA
✓ Featured in the World Research Institute Report as a proven behaviour change solution
What Councils are saying
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Residents have a very positive view of OzHarvest. There is awareness of the work OzHarvest does through a broad section of the community, from school children and parents to retirees. The high regard that OzHarvest is held in was beneficial for Council as it increased interest in the message and there was an initial positive response to a new idea because of the existing positive regard for OzHarvest.
Lithgow City Council
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8,000 rolls were distributed to our libraries and other council customer service desks, as well as our pools and leisure centres. All the tape was gone within a month following restocks.
City of Canterbury Bankstown
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We were very pleased with how popular the tape is with our residents! Almost all residents we spoke to about the program took some tape to try out at home. Many people also expressed that it would be easy to implement and convenient for their family. Residents typically had heard of OzHarvest before and trusted the company.
Hornsby Shire Council
The research that underpins our work
Inside Australian households: who's wasting the most, what's ending up in the bin, and what it's really costing us.
This most impactful behaviours to tackle
household food waste and explores influencing factors for behaviour change.
A study of Australian households that trialled Use It Tape, which resulting in a reduction of food waste by 40%.
