Change practices to reduce food waste, urges Masagos [News]

Change practices to reduce food waste, urges Masagos [News]

By Neo Chai Chin, TODAY, 10 Jan 2016

In calling food waste one of the biggest streams of waste here, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli said all stakeholders have a role to play in managing this.

Some practices such as the culture of excess at banquets must change, “without totally changing the way we live as a community in Singapore”, he told reporters after the SGfuture dialogue “Moving Towards a Zero Waste Nation: Food Waste” led by his ministry today (Jan 10).

Reducing food waste is a way for households to save money, and Singaporeans should not take the amount of food available here for granted, he added.

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Source: TODAY

1 Comment

  • byWitono
    Posted January 13, 2016 10:57 am 0Likes

    I had an initiative hashtag #wastedweddingfood on instagram just a day before CNA published the news. There’s just too much food wasted at the end of weddings.

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