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Chicken breasts, bruised apples and near-expiry yoghurt - these are some perfectly edible food items that suppliers have been throwing away by the tonnes, before they even reach supermarkets and our tables. A lot of this food waste has to do with consumers’ choices.
Globally, we waste 1.3 billion tonnes of food a year, about a third of all food grown for human consumption. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, in industrialised cities in Asia like Hong Kong, Jakarta and Singapore, more than 50% of food waste happens at the consumer and retail stage.
And according to Nicholas Lim from food rescue group TreeDots, one Singapore slaughterhouse can throw out 7 to 15 tonnes of edible chicken meat every day. For one thing, supermarkets contractually bind suppliers to import an extra 10-20% of stock in case there’s more demand than usual.
So TreeDots now goes directly to suppliers, buy up seemingly unsellable food, and sell it for cheap to customers who want it. Other social enterprises like Treatsure, Hong Kong’s GreenPrice and Taiwan’s Goodwill Foods are in the same fight. Working directly with suppliers or farmers, these groups take goods that are close-to-expiry, with dented packaging, or labelled “ugly”, and sell them directly to consumers on e-commerce platforms.
Food, Wasted is a documentary series done in partnership with DBS, exploring the reasons why food waste occurs and what some groups are doing about it; and offers audiences simple but effective solutions to tackle food waste.
To learn more about why we need to work together towards zero food waste and how @DBS is raising awareness on this issue: go.dbs.com/2Ml...
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