The Mirosa Report
About this resource: In 2019/2020, the New Zealand Parliamentary Environmental Committee investigated food waste in New Zealand. Food Waste Innovation’s director, Associate Professor Miranda Mirosa, was the expert advisor. Her report summarised the evidence received by the committee and provided advice about and recommendations for the committee’s findings on the briefing. In the report, Miranda detailed forty recommendations on how to reduce food waste in New Zealand. These include:
Establishing a national definition for food waste
Collecting national food waste baseline data
Continued funding of R&D of value-added products made from food waste
A review of food date labelling practices
Education for businesses on the legality and safety of ‘doggy bags’
Businesses to monitor and report their food waste data
Consumer education about food waste in schools
The adoption and communication of a national food waste reduction target
Development of a national-level food waste reduction strategy and implementation plan
A collaborative whole supply chain approach to food waste prevention
Sufficient resourcing of food waste prevention initiatives
To scale up our food recovery sector
More New Zealand-specific food waste research.
View the full NZ Parliament Environment Committee report HERE.
Food Waste Innovation author: Miranda Mirosa
Citation: Mirosa, M. (2019). Briefing to investigate food waste in New Zealand - Appendix B, Report prepared by Associate Professor Miranda Mirosa. House of Representatives. http://hdl.handle.net/10523/12348