With almost 4m tonnes of food from the commercial sector going to landfill, social enterprise Yume connects suppliers with restaurants and other buyers
Australians eat more salmon than any other fish– six times more than tuna and 16 times more than barramundi. But even then, suppliers of the pink-hued fish were overly optimistic about our appetites at Christmas.
About six tonnes of unsold middle cuts of salmon landed on the online wholesale food marketplace Yume after the holiday season, says Katy Barfield, who launched Yume as a social enterprise a year ago to combat food waste.
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