Food Waste In Malaysia Statistic 2017

Of this 8000 tonnes or about 60 is avoidable food waste.

Food waste in malaysia statistic 2017. In 2015 there were 56 346 women owned establishments in food and beverage services which comprised 33 6 per cent of the total establishments with annual growth rate of 0 9 per cent. Ho mei kei public relation officer. The office of chief statistician malaysia department of statistics malaysia 30 august 2017 contact person. Malaysians generate 38 000 tonnes of waste per day.

Of this around 15 000 tonnes is food waste. Annual economic statistics 2018 water supply. In that year australia s food waste amounted to a national total of some 8 95 billion kilograms which ranked. Singapore about 2 5kg of food waste is thrown away by an average singapore home each week.

Sewerage waste management and remediation activities for 2017 registered a 8 1 per cent growth in value of gross output to rm14 4 billion as compared to 2015. Food waste and food loss are the key to food wastage which is a growing issue in malaysia. This statistic shows the annual food waste of selected countries worldwide in 2017. A study from the solid waste and public cleansing management corporation swcorp shows that malaysians throw away 3 000 tons worth of food items every day.

This food is considered to be in good condition and can be safely eaten yet still goes to waste. However despite this wastage in malaysia previous studies on food security have shown that people in urban low income households indicated prevalence of overall food insecurity at 65 7 to 66 6. People in 443 homes took part in the household waste study from november 2016 to march 2017. High food waste sources occur at the stage of production processing retail and consumption ghafar 2017.

Thursday 28 february 2019 1200. Food waste also occurs through the use of food that returns little nutritional value.