Food waste affects us all as a community and as a nation.

“Those with lower incomes tend to go for cheaper and less nutritional food due to their limited financial resources, which has been made worse by the rising cost of living over the past few years.
29.7% of children within daycare age (zero to four years old) had or are currently suffering from stunted growth, according to ministry's data.”

More and more studies and news reported heart disease is on the rise amongst young people due to poor diet, causing health difficulties especially children's cognitive, impacting growth development, immune system, diabetics and malnutrition and more which leads to financial/medical/ burden and income generation, worsening the poverty cycle in future generations.

“Children suffering from stunted growth are more at risk of developing non-communicable diseases like obesity which will affect their productivity capability as they reach adulthood that will in turn hurt the future productivity of the country.” -Ministry of Health Malaysia.

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“Mounting evidence from multiple scientific studies shows that many fruits, vegetables, and grains grown today carry less protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin, and vitamin C than those that were grown decades ago. This is an especially salient issue if more people switch to primarily plant-based diets, as experts are increasingly recommending for public health and for protecting the planet.”

Businesses cant be blamed as have too sustain to pay for rising cost, salary increment, bonuses, etc.
Even our local restaurants meals serving lesser and lesser nutritious ingredients, excessive flour etc.

What is food(to you)?

Everyone sees food differently as everyone came from different background, upbringing, classes, culture, location and local market(rural/urban), and etc.
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Preventable Waste

Due to invisible hand, free market, chronology and scale of wastages, we only truly prevent waste when we improved the individuals diet; from eating unhealthy diet to a healthy one.

Surplus is food that failed to reach its primary consumer due to various reasons i.e; overstocking, mishandling, appearance, near expiry, rejects, and etc.

Everyday, the market will over produce and discard surplus, leading not only to nutritious food loss, but also loss in profit.

Not to mention waste dumped into landfills, causing environmental harm and cost to the nation.

It’s impossible to match market supply and demand, market is inefficient but not necessary broken…
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And yes, our government have been actively combating this issues with holistic measures through…

• community assistance, empowerment and awareness programmes

• food subsidy and awareness programmes in public schools and media

• price monitoring and crackdown

• supporting local agriculture, fair market, etc.

• empowering local social enterprises like Pasar Grub

• and more…

• Pasar Grub goal is to tackle this issue on the policy level.

  • Gathering food waste organisations in Malaysia and hopefully ASEAN countries to form an alliance group.

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