Food Waste in Hong Kong

Posted by Go.Asia | Nov 6, 2012 | Food Crisis & Rescue, FOOD WASTE﹣FACT, Go Action |

| Tags: Feeding HK, Food Crisis and Rescue, Food waste, Food Waste in Hong Kong, FOOD WASTE﹣FACT, Friends of the Earth (HK), Go.Action, hong kong, MingPao, project

· Food accounts for a third of all solid waste in Hong Kong
· 3,200 tonnes of food are sent to landfill every day, that is 120 double decker buses

· The volume of food waste has doubled in the last 5 years
· The remaining capacities of Hong Kong’s three landfills will be exhaust

· Supermarkets dispose 29 tonnes of edible food per day

· Compared with Taiwan and Korea, the food waste in Hong Kong reached 20 to 30% higher. The weight reached 0.47kg while 0.34kg and 0.3kg in Taiwan and Korea respectively.

Source: Environmental Protection Department, MingPao, Feeding HK, Friends of the Earth (HK)

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