Bite-sized Activation

Bite-sized activation 1: Map the market

A crowd of people at Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne, Australia. Photo by Mitchell Luo, via Unsplash.

Bite-sized Activation 1

Map the market:

Define the target behaviour & audience for a reusable container trial

Tuesday 1 July 2025 at Queen Victoria Market

Put behaviour change knowledge into action in our first bite-sized activation in this series.

What you’ll be doing

Help shape the next chapter of Siptember — our award-winning Melbourne-wide campaign that’s been tackling single-use coffee cup waste since 2019. The campaign recently took out a Tidy Towns and Cities award for Education and Behaviour Change!

In this session, we’re zooming in on a new three-month trial at Queen Victoria Market, where we’ll be teaming up with B-Alternative to introduce reusable dine-in containers at food trucks and ramp up BYO container use for produce.

Join us in mapping the system, identifying stakeholders, barriers and influences, and leveraging our past insights to define a target behaviour and audience. Together, we’ll craft a behaviour change statement that will shape the next wave of interventions.

Why this is important

This trial — and your input — is critical to designing practical, scalable solutions that make low-waste dining and shopping the easy, default choice.

Each year, Australians generate over 1.9 million tonnes of food packaging waste, much of it from single-use containers. By rethinking how we eat and buy on the go, we can help shift systems and habits toward a more sustainable, circular future — starting in one of Melbourne’s busiest public spaces.

Expected outcomes

1. System map created

2. Target audience and behaviour selected

3. Foundation for choosing ‘moments that matter’

Skills & tools you’ll learn and use

• System, influence & behaviour mapping

• Behavioural personas

• Prioritising behaviours

• Writing a behaviour change statement (AATCT approach)

Sign up to participate

Date: 1-4pm, Tuesday 1 July. On-site at Queen Victoria Market (no remote option available, sorry).

8 places available: sign up here.

Time commitment: 1 x 3 hour session at Queen Victoria Market, plus pre-reading (recommended).

Prior skills and experience: None required.