M’sians continue to waste food


Photo posed by model: IZZRAFIQ ALIAS/The Star

PETALING JAYA: Malaysians are still wasting plenty of food, despite having to fork out more money for meals nowadays.

Every day, we dumped 4,081 tonnes of edible food – enough to fill one-and-a-half Olympic-sized swimming pools – last year nationwide.

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