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The Dating Game: Reducing consumer food waste

·46 min·4 clips
10% of global greenhouse gases responsible for global heating come from food that is produced but not eaten.
Host Anthony Frosch interviews Associate Professor Lucas Parker about his RMIT research into how Australians misunderstand food date labels, exploring the massive scale of global food waste, consumer confusion between 'use by' and 'best before' dates, and innovative packaging design solutions aimed at reducing household food waste.

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A clear, useful look at why tiny labels still shape what gets thrown away.

Food date labels are a small piece of packaging, but the episode treats them as a practical test of everyday judgment: how people read "use by" and "best before," why those labels blur in busy households, and how that confusion can turn into avoidable waste.

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If you keep mistaking best before for use by, this one is for you.

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