Welcome to the Australian Local Food System Policy Database. This is a collection of policies from New South Wales (NSW) and Victorian local governments that relate to healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems.
For further information about using the database and how it was created see How to use the database. You can search the database by using the fields below. Domain refers to eight broad categories under which various topics are situated. The domains and topics are based on a framework of recommendations for local government action on creating a healthy, sustainable, and equitable food system (also located on the ‘How to use the database’ page linked above).
To cite the database: Reeve B, Carrad A, Rose N, Charlton K & Aguirre-Bielschowsky I (2021) Australian Local Food System Policy Database. Available at: https://law-food-systems.sydney.edu.au/policy-database (access date).
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| Document title | Relevant text in the policy | Domain | Topic | State | Local Government name | Council type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Educate food vendors on food service packaging requirements that can be accepted at Council events and in household food organics and garden organics bins (Council events and take away outlets) | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | If a food organics and garden organics collection service is adopted: Develop and implement a community education program | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Program name Program outcome Schools Provide specialist advice to schools to reduce and avoid waste at school (and at home) using Council’s Waste Education Van and other resources Conduct bin audits to identify opportunities to reduce waste and increase recycling Council’s trained ResourceSmart Schools facilitator to work with the schools to complete the ResourceSmart modules Provide specialist advice to avoid food waste using the food waste diary and manage food waste at home with composting or green cones | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Program name Program outcome Schools Provide specialist advice to schools to reduce and avoid waste at school (and at home) using Council’s Waste Education Van and other resources Conduct bin audits to identify opportunities to reduce waste and increase recycling Council’s trained ResourceSmart Schools facilitator to work with the schools to complete the ResourceSmart modules Provide specialist advice to avoid food waste using the food waste diary and manage food waste at home with composting or green cones Community Coordinate waste avoidance workshop at local venues to assist residents to better manage waste and also avoid waste Decluttering workshops Waste information Festivals Council newsletters/ local media stories Composting seminar with gardening expert 1 1 school 1 school engaged 2 60 – 100 attendees Completed 2 workshops 6 4-5 2 4 2 40 attendees Large audience Large audience Large audience 60 – 100 attendees Completed 6 times Completed 4-5 times Completed 2 displays/activities 4 articles 1 workshops Annual target delivery Number of participants per session Benchmark for success 5 Whole school or classes that have waste added to the curriculum 5 schools engaged | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Removing food from the garbage bins, and therefore landfill, would reduce methane produced by the food as it breaks down. This requires a change to the collection system and an extensive education program to ensure that only garden and food organics are deposited in that bin as the contamination rate must be under 1%. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Secure Council funding to develop and deliver a series of priority education and community engagement programs based on the waste hierarchy for Council to deliver across the four-year action plan | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Strategic direction 1: Avoid waste generation Action Priority 1 2-3 Year Years 4 & + Years Cost $ $$ $$$ Budget 0-$10,000 >$10,000-$100,000 >$100,000 E Existing R Additional Funding Required Measure Lead 1 Promote food waste avoidance to the community, through programs such as Love Food Hate Waste, to reduce avoidable food waste | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | The biggest short term opportunities that Council can control to achieve zero waste are educating people to sort materials into the right bin and to start collecting food organics with the garden organics collection. This would result in 58% of materials being moved out of the garbage bin in the next one to two years. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Whole school or classes that have waste added to the curriculum 5 schools engaged | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Provide new and retrofit existing public water drinking fountains to enable bottle filling to discourage the purchase of single use plastic water bottles. | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Composting seminar with gardening expert 1 1 school 1 school engaged 2 60 – 100 attendees | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Program name Program outcome Schools Provide specialist advice to schools to reduce and avoid waste at school (and at home) using Council’s Waste Education Van and other resources Conduct bin audits to identify opportunities to reduce waste and increase recycling Council’s trained ResourceSmart Schools facilitator to work with the schools to complete the ResourceSmart modules Provide specialist advice to avoid food waste using the food waste diary and manage food waste at home with composting or green cones | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Undertake a business case to determine the viability to support households to manage food scraps and garden organics with subsidised home composting and/or bio-digesters | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | food organics one in three people used some sort of home composting system to manage food waste seven out of 10 people preferred to include food into the garden organics collection to keep their food waste out of landfill, if the cost was approximately the same | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Accept food organics in the garden organics collection | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Accept food organics in the garden organics collection which would result in up to 40% reduction in the weight of the garbage bin | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Advocate to state and federal governments for product stewardship schemes and for recycling facilities | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Advocate to the federal government and industry to ban or find alternatives to products made up of multiple materials that are difficult to separate for recycling, such as: > plastic composites (e.g. chip packets, drink bottles with moulded plastic labels) | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Advocate to the state government for amendments to the Victorian Planning Provisions for mandatory waste stream separation (garbage, recyclables, food and garden organics, hard waste) and collections in multi-unit developments | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Advocate to the state government for increased reinvestment of the Victorian landfill levy to drive waste reduction and increased recycling by: > improving collection and sorting infrastructure including resource recovery centres > supporting councils to work with their communities to avoid waste, reduce contamination and increase recovery of food organics > developing and delivering community engagement programs to reduce waste to landfill and increase recovery > driving market development to improve competition, closed loop purchasing and increased jobs. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | An understanding of the nutritional and waste avoidance benefits of nude food | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | An understanding of the role soil microbes play in organics reprocessing and the promotion of domestic scale food waste reprocessing technology. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Bin audits show that food waste, which is not currently collected for recycling by Council, makes up 40% of the garbage bin. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Complete the business case for the introduction of a food organics and garden organics (FOGO) kerbside collection service | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Continue providing waste management systems and vendor requirements at Council's major community events that reduce waste to landfill and increase recovery, including food | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Council supports ResourceSmart Schools ResourceSmart Schools is an award-winning Victorian Government program, managed by Sustainability Victoria, that assists schools to embed sustainability in everything they do. It provides practical support to reduce resource use, make cost savings, integrate sustainability into the curriculum and share learnings beyond the school gate. This means it schools helps schools reduce costs while giving students the opportunity to learn about sustainability in a tangible and realistic environment. It rewards and recognises students, teachers, and schools for sustainability achievements through Sustainability Certification and the Annual ResourceSmart School Awards. Council’s waste educator is a trained ResourceSmart Schools facilitator and works with the schools to complete the modules. Council supports ResourceSmart Schools in the municipality and encourages non-participating schools to become involved. Currently: 33, or 61%, of the total 54 schools in Banyule participate in ResourceSmart Schools. This is made up of 26 primary and 7 secondary schools. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Council will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help to adapt to climate change already occurring through reducing its energy consumption and waste generation. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Criteria to be reported on will include: total kerbside garbage to landfill (tonnes) total kerbside greenhouse gas emissions to landfill(%)6 total kerbside diversion from landfill (%) total kerbside organics diversion from landfill total kerbside recyclables (tonnes) total kerbside waste (kilograms per collection household) In addition to annual reviews random bin audits will be undertaken from time to time by Council to obtain a snapshot of bin contents. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Deliver waste avoidance, reuse and correct recycling education through Council's Rethink Centre and community education programs | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |
| Banyule City Council A waste avoidance, waste management and resource recovery plan for the Banyule community | Educate food vendors on food service packaging requirements that can be accepted at Council events and in household food organics and garden organics bins (Council events and take away outlets) | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | Victoria | Banyule | Metropolitan |