‘Waste not, want not’

READERS may be interested to learn of Hong Kong’s Breadline app that connects bakeries with volunteers who collect leftover bread for charity groups to help solve one of the city’s biggest problems – food waste. Malaysians, too, need to be more aware of the increasing food waste problem.

SWCorp, our government agency dealing with solid waste management found (in 2017) that Malay-sians generate around 15,000 tonnes of food waste; that could have fed up to two million people. Also, it is quite disappointing to learn that 55% of solid waste disposed of at landfills comprise food and post-harvest loss from farms and plantations.