When good food goes to waste


ACCORDING to the Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Corporation (SWCorp), Malaysians produce about 17,000 tonnes of food waste daily, of which 24% is still edible.

This amounts to about 4,080 tonnes or 4.08 million kg of good food going to waste every day.

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