{"id":975,"date":"2021-03-26T12:33:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T02:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=975"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T02:33:21","slug":"waste-not-want-not-reducing-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/newsletters\/caring-together-update\/2021\/03\/waste-not-want-not-reducing-food-waste","title":{"rendered":"Waste not, want not. Reducing food waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-972 size-fusion-400\" src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/biowaste-recycling-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/biowaste-recycling-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/biowaste-recycling-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/biowaste-recycling-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/biowaste-recycling-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/biowaste-recycling.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Caboolture Hospital saved an astonishing 92 kilograms of food waste in the first month of our new Food Waste Recycling Program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This incredible feat equates to 33.58 tonnes per year and saves Caboolture Hospital approximately $5500 per annum on general waste collection.<\/p>\n<p>Recognising that the hospital\u2019s organic waste could be put to good use, food waste from the kitchen is now collected by Food Services staff and sent to a commercial composting company.<\/p>\n<p>The program started in the main kitchen and work is underway to expand it to include coffee grounds collected by the Common Good caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>The response from staff involved in the program has been overwhelmingly positive. Both the Food Services and Waste Management teams have quickly developed a passion to help stop food waste and have adopted a sustainable mindset.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caboolture Hospital A\/Nurse Navigator Jonnel Boco made one small change that is having a big impact on the planet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caring-together-update","tag-pending"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}