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Don’t Waste Food

December 8, 2008 by Eugene  
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Singaporeans waste a lot of food each year. In 2008, we threw away about 0.6 million tonnes of food waste and only 12% was recycled. We should not waste food and let’s try to find ways to reduce food wastage in our homes, for our events and for companies that produce food products.

Here’s a few tips:

For Homes

Before cooking, confirm the amount of food needed and plan the type of food to be cooked and how to cook the food. This helps you to prevent excessive food wastage.

You can also refer to the food storage chart from the AVA website to check some guidelines on how long you can keep your food in the refrigerator. By keeping to the food storage duration and temperature, you can reduce food spoilage.

For Events

Confirm the number of participants attending the event and their dietary requirements. This would help you to prepare or order the right amount of food. It might also be good to cater slightly less food (about 10 to 20 percent) than required so as to avoid unnecessary wastage.

Arrange for any leftover food to be given to the venue staff, event organiser or donate it to a charity. The leftover food should not be wasted.

For Food Companies

If your company has unsold or soon-to-be expired food products, you can sell them at a cheaper price before the expiry date to clear stock or donate the food products to schools, charitable organisations or anyone who wants them before the expiry date. You can contact the following organisations for opportunities:

A local non-profit organisation, Food from the Heart, collects unsold bread and pastries from bakeries and hotels and distributes them to welfare organisations, needy families and individuals.

There’s also a youth initiative, Food for All, that compiles a list of the food rations programmes in Singapore, and provides a food rations matching service to match food rations programmes with distributors and donors.

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11 Comments on "Don’t Waste Food"

  1. saadi on Wed, 13th May 2009 1:52 pm 

    hello
    i am in iran. i work about bread wate in iran. do you have any statistic about bread waste in sigapore or other countries?

    thak you

  2. Eugene on Sat, 16th May 2009 10:43 pm 

    We don’t have statistics on bread, only have data on food waste at http://www.zerowastesg.com/2008/12/08/food-waste-recycling/

  3. Ricky Adrianus on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 11:13 pm 

    Hello
    Currently I am working on an advertising campaign for my major project about Fruit waste in Singapore. Do you have any article, fact sheet, or any data related to fruit waste in singapore?
    I would highly appreciate you help

    Thank you

  4. Eugene on Fri, 5th Feb 2010 5:16 pm 

    Hi Ricky, sorry we don’t have data on fruit waste in Singapore. Check out this company that collects fruit waste and turns them into household cleaners http://www.envizyme.com/index.html.

  5. shaun ang on Fri, 5th Mar 2010 10:17 am 

    hello, we are currently doing a research on food waste by companies such as supermarket. do you happen to have any statistic on that?

  6. Eugene on Fri, 5th Mar 2010 11:27 am 

    Hi Shaun, we don’t have waste statistics on food waste by companies. Check with NEA.

  7. ahbee on Sat, 10th Apr 2010 2:05 pm 

    Hi, I think that the reasons for food waste are not mentioned.

  8. yohana on Fri, 18th Jun 2010 1:51 am 

    Hi, I’m currently doing a research on donation of unsold food items in supermarkets to welfare organizations. Is there such a project going on in Singapore, both on a regular basis or irregular basis? Thanks :D

  9. Eugene on Thu, 1st Jul 2010 2:37 pm 

    check with http://www.foodheart.org/index.php

  10. Tricia on Sun, 4th Jul 2010 3:00 pm 

    How about those unrecycled food waste? How are they treated and where they go?

  11. Eugene on Thu, 8th Jul 2010 6:49 pm 

    @ Tricia – All food waste that are not recycled goes to the incineration plants.

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