Food Waste Mitigation: the podcast

Show summary

In this episode, host Suzana Tripologos has a conversation with Dr Steven Lapidge and Dr Simon Lockrey. Dr Lockrey discusses his research around mitigating food waste in the life cycle of food production, and how technology plays a role in different phases of this process. Dr Lapidge shares his experience spearheading a national approach to food waste mitigation and his efforts to increase government, consumer and industry involvement.

About the guest speakers

Dr. Lapidge is the inaugural CEO of the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre and Stop Food Waste Australia. He has spent most of his 20-year career working with agricultural and environmental Cooperative Research Centres, with a strong focus on new product development, commercialisation, extension and adoption.

Dr. Lockrey is a leading sustainability and design innovation researcher based at RMIT University since 2009. His research domains include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), co-design, design innovation, green marketing, resource efficiency, sustainability strategy, tool development, and food waste.

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