Food waste: Where food matters, looks matter more [News]

Food waste: Where food matters, looks matter more By Channel NewsAsia, 16 Feb 2016 If you and your family made it a point to finish every morsel of your Chinese New Year meals, then you have all done exceptionally well. This is because every year, Singapore sees hundreds of thousands of tonnes of food going to waste. According to the National Environment Agency, the country wasted approximately 790,000 tonnes of food in 2014. During the Chinese New Year period, food waste increases by up to 20 per cent. As a small country with limited agricultural ability, Singapore is heavily reliant on imports for food. In 2014, Singapore spent US$10.6 billion (S$14.8 billion) importing 5.93 million tonnes of food. But out of that, 13 per cent of its imports, or US$1.4 billion worth of it, end up as waste. Click here to read the full article Source: Channel NewsAsia