Find a New Usage for Food Waste

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  1. Divert food scraps/ waste to feed animals in local farms. Did you know some farms are specialised in insects, such as the black soldier flies? They can turn food waste into biomaterials
  2. Convert Food Waste to industrial usage

For example:

  • Used cooking oil can be recycled into biofuel
  • Okara and soy bean waste can be dedicated to higher value products
  • Coffee grounds are 100% natural and have various practical usage related to gardening, cleaning, scrubbing or technological usage such as fire retardant material. Contract with a specialist to collect them. If you want to compost it by yourself, be aware that used coffee grounds must be detoxified by composting for a minimum of 98 days for plants to benefit from the potassium and nitrogen contained in the roasted beans.

1.3 billion tonnes

per year of food — fit for human consumption — is either wasted or lost globally.
(The Food and Agriculture Organization - United Nations)

86 times higher

The global warming potential of methane (a gas produced by food thrown away in landfills) compared to CO2 averaged over 20 years.
(The Conversation)