How one inner city couple made money by reducing food waste | Landline

A couple from inner-city Brisbane, who moved to a plot of land on the outskirts of the metropolitan area, began transforming the local landscape and economy.

Seeing an opportunity to convert food scraps into fresh produce, Alice and Phil made a fresh kind of waste collection deal with cafes in their local area.

Instead of throwing out food scraps, the cafes agreed to have Alice and Phil collect the waste produced by their kitchens so the couple could then use the yield to improve the soil of their nearby land.

That soil would help grow a wide range of food crops, which the pair would then sell back to the local cafes, giving diners in the community the chance to make their locavore dreams come true!

A couple of years down the track, and Alice and Phil have made a success out of their loop model, and can’t imagine living any other way.

They hope that landowners across the Brisbane area can use their model to grow their own food, and help find efficiencies in the system of food consumption.

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