Up to 270,000 tonnes of food go to waste during Ramadan


KUALA LUMPUR: Every year during the month of Ramadan, about 270,000 tonnes of food go straight into the dustbin.

According to the Solid Waste And Public Cleansing Management Corporation (SWCorp), this amount of food could have fed 180 million people, six times the country's population of 27 million.

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