Community food programs can pick up some of the slack but even the crazy levels of inequality that exist in Australia (one of the wealthiest societies to have ever existed) don’t create people desperate enough to consume this (or with the available resources to preserve it before it goes off).
That’s where medium scale, distributed local composting comes into its own. Capturing food nutrients at source and preventing them from being lost (or worse fuelling even worse climate collapse), processing it with passive natural energy inputs, and building more resilient, long term sustainable food growing opportunities in the process.
Every block in every city and every street in every town in Australia needs a hot composting station.