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Speaker 1: Jum Mission with Jonesy and Amanda Well. Not only is

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Speaker 1: our next guest an incredible woman, I admire her enormously

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Speaker 1: also for her love of colorful jewelry, but she's the

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Speaker 1: founder of the food rescue charity oz Harvest, which is

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Speaker 1: renowned for disrupting the food waste landscape in Australia. I

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Speaker 1: did a story with Ronnie recently for the living Room

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Speaker 1: and I went home and looked at my fridge and

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Speaker 1: looked at all the leftovers, and it's changed how our

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Speaker 1: family eats. Her story is just as remarkable as she is,

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Speaker 1: and she's written a new memoir called A Repurposed Life.

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Speaker 1: She joins us now, Ronnie Cahn, Hello, Hello, Ronnie, Good.

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Speaker 2: Morning you gordeous people. Thank you so much for having

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Speaker 2: me on the show.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's a pleasure to have you so tell us

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Speaker 1: the very beginnings of oz Harvest, because I believe that well,

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Speaker 1: as you've written in your book that you were catering

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Speaker 1: at an event. You're a party planner, and you saw

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Speaker 1: all the leftover food you thought this just isn't right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I used to throw it away week after week

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Speaker 2: and it was just ridiculous. It didn't occur to me

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Speaker 2: the absolute scale of what I was doing until I

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Speaker 2: did this enormous event and everybody got pissed. Nobody ate

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Speaker 2: the food, and I thought, there is no way that

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Speaker 2: I can throw away this magnificent food, and I popped

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Speaker 2: it in my car and I became a rogue food

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Speaker 2: rescuer for a while, until all the forces of the

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Speaker 2: universe and I pushed, and never having intended to start

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Speaker 2: a charity, and I started as Harvest, and I guess

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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty million meals later, it wasn't such

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Speaker 2: a bad idea.

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Speaker 1: So who gives you the food? And where does it go?

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Speaker 2: So the food comes from supermarkets, from dailies, from takeaways

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Speaker 2: from restaurants. This is obviously when we are functioning fully

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Speaker 2: without COVID, but definitely at the moment, mainly from supermarkets

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Speaker 2: and from the food supply chain. And we rescue that food.

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Speaker 2: It's perfectly good, it's edible, it's all fit for consumption.

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Speaker 2: It's what we reject. It's the banana with a freckle,

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Speaker 2: it's the milk that might only have two days left.

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Speaker 2: It's perfectly good and beautiful, and we take it and

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Speaker 2: make sure that it goes to feed vulnerable people. We

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Speaker 2: deliver it to over fifteen hundred charitable organizations around Australia.

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Speaker 3: And I guess running as well. It's changing your mindset.

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Speaker 3: When I go to the supermarket, I used to look

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Speaker 3: at some sort of fruit that was like banana with

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Speaker 3: the strange thing on it. But it's hard not to

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Speaker 3: buy that, to push past that and buy other fruit.

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Speaker 3: But it's actually changing your mindset a little bit as well,

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Speaker 3: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And that is our biggest stumbling block quite honestly.

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Speaker 2: A third of all food goes to waste, and households

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Speaker 2: waste are part of that a third. And if we

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Speaker 2: just changed our behavior and bought that beautiful fruit which

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Speaker 2: tastes gorgeous, it just looks a little ugly, and used

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Speaker 2: it and both things that had shortened date life. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we're trying to work on changing what labeling looks like,

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Speaker 2: but if we change our behavior, that would save this

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Speaker 2: country billions of dollars help armors, help all of us. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The theme of your book is also that it's never

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Speaker 1: too late or too early to do good, to find

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Speaker 1: purpose in life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe we all. You know, so many people

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Speaker 2: say when can I start our wait till I've paid

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Speaker 2: my mortgage. I've done this, done that. Now is the

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Speaker 2: time and it doesn't have to be a big thing.

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Speaker 2: It can be by being kind to your neighbor, but

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Speaker 2: being thoughtful, by just sharing something, by doing good, by

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Speaker 2: thinking what does the world need from me? What do

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Speaker 2: people need from me? Not what do I need from

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Speaker 2: the world.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is great. Well, we're like damaged fruit and

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Speaker 3: we're always but you've got I've got some freckles. It's

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Speaker 3: great to talk to you, Runny. Ronnie Cown's memoir A

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Speaker 3: Repurposed Life is available today. Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for Amanda. I'm thrilled and excited

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Speaker 2: because I got a gift yesterday and your book arrived

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Speaker 2: at me and I started reading it.

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Speaker 1: Really, we've done a swapsie we have done. Now if

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Speaker 1: we just swap jewelry, I'd be happy to.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Ronnie.

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Speaker 3: Exchange rings, that's right, And Amanda