Optimising Australian Policy Frameworks for Converting Food Loss & Waste (FLW) into High-Value Bioproducts
In line with Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3, Australia has committed to halving food loss and waste (FLW) by 2030, including through biorefining horticultural FLW to create high-value bioproducts. FLW contains myriad chemical characteristics with broad application in bioproducts. An industry for high-value bioproducts in Australia is, however, nascent, and will require targeted and sustained policy intervention to make a valuable contribution to FLW reduction. Australia’s National Food Waste Strategy and associated guiding documents acknowledge that policy will be a key driver in increased production to meet its bioproduct targets, but neither the grey nor research literature has examined what policy approach would best serve Australia in that process.
This research will examine the policy levers available to advancing a product-driven biorefining industry in Australia, with a view to providing recommendations to policymakers seeking to support a sustainable bioproduct industry from a FLW feedstock.
