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Founders of Food2Soil - Josie Grenfell and Annabel Schweiger
The Canberra Times
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4/12/2024
The founders of the Food2Soil - a startup recycling commercial food waste into biofertiliser - are crowdraising to keep growing their business during a cost of living crisis.
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So our main mission is to divert food waste from landfill and to improve Australian soils
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and plant health by returning the nutrients back into soil from our food waste that we
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collect and also the microbes that are grown in that and returned back to soil.
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Using natural fertilisers also decreases the amount of synthetic fertilisers our growers
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are having to use and this in turn means less harmful runoff into our streams, waterways
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and dams.
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We haven't had any financial support from the ACT government but um.
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I think with the regulations coming into effect in June the government's going to have to
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step up to enforce that and I'm hoping that the government will actually look at the framework
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that is going to support that so they will pay more attention to businesses like ourselves
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that are trying to divert food waste from landfill.
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Hopefully we'll get a bit more support then.
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Crowdfunding serves a dual purpose for us.
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A) we're able to get some capital to make those expansions that we need to do to be
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successful but it also grows our customer base and we really love the idea of having
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people who love our product and are supporters of food soil being actually part of the business.
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Thank you.
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