World Environment Day 2013: Think, Eat, Save. We waste a lot of food, we need to produce more, we create environmental issues before we eat, during eating and after eating. About time we always think before eating food and our requirement.

Wasteful ways of Malaysian gluttons:

Malaysia is a food heaven – but it is also one giant food dump.
It generates about 15,000 tonnes of food and kitchen waste daily – enough to fill 7.5 football fields or to feed 7.5 million people a day.
This is a hike from 2011, where about 930 tonnes of unconsumed food were thrown away every day. And that was double the 2009 figure.
In Kuala Lumpur alone, the waste comes up to about 3,000 tonnes a day while the Consumers Association of Penang claimed that the island alone generated 355 tonnes of food waste every day.
Of the amount wasted, between 10% and 15% comprised unconsumed and expired food.
At 10-course Chinese dinners for example, 30% of food goes to waste.

“It is an ethical, economic and environmental issue given the enormous waste of energy, water, fertilisers and other inputs as a result of food that is produced but never eaten.
“Each one of us can do something about this and that’s why, through Think. Eat. Save. Reduce Your Foodprint campaign, we invite people across the world to join us to raise awareness and to take practical action whether in your home, your farm, in the supermarket, in a canteen, a hotel or anywhere else where food is prepared and consumed.