Committed to reducing food waste

Reducing food waste in store

Getting the right amount of quality fresh food from farms to our stores and onto the tables of our customers, in its best condition, has a significant impact on reducing food waste in Australia.

Our 'Food Rescue and Recycling Program' helps our stores better identify and divert surplus fresh food away from landfill, and instead use it for alternatives such as hunger relief, as animal stock feed at local farms and zoos, or for commercial composting.

100% of our stores now have a program to keep food out of landfill.

Hunger Relief

By working closely with our food rescue partners OzHarvest, Foodbank and FareShare, we divert surplus edible food from hundreds of stores, and make it available for local hunger relief agencies.

Working in partnership with our hunger relief partners we are helping to provide more than 20 million nourishing meals each year for Australians who may otherwise go without.

Food Savers

We know you love fresh food and hate wasting it, we’re the same. That’s why we’ve created Food Savers - a series of clever tips designed to help you get the most from the food you buy, so you waste less and save more.

With Food Savers, you can discover clever cooking ideas, smart ways to store your food and make it last longer, as well as some great ways to give your leftovers a tasty makeover to keep things fresh in your kitchen.

The Odd Bunch

To support local farmers and help reduce food waste, we’ve created The Odd Bunch. The Odd Bunch are fruit and vegetables that may not be as good looking, but are just as beautiful on the inside. Since its launch in 2015, more than 40% of our customers have purchased from the range and more than 115,000 tonnes of fruit and vegetables have been sold, which might have otherwise been wasted.

Woolworths Stock Feed for Farmers Program

We work with local farmers so that surplus food, which cannot go to hunger relief, is used as stock feed for animals or for on-farm composting. This helps us further reduce and re-purpose bakery and produce waste.

Food Recycling

We have a number of food recycling programs that we either operate ourselves or have involvement in. This includes composting, worm farms and programs where food waste is turned into fertiliser and green energy.

Food Waste Research

The Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre is finding new solutions to help reduce food waste. This program will be investing $123 million over the next 10 years to find innovative solutions to this big environmental problem. We are are proud to be actively participating in this program, and are the only supermarket and retailer member.