Being the international school ISKL, is, we hold diverse culture and we are here to talk about the food waste that we have made in daily life. After we hold this interview for each student at our school, there are several people who thinks the food is too much for them and often throw it away to wrong trash cans. Our school has provided two types of bins for our food waste; normal trash can and food waste trash can. But still, there are people who have troubles throwing the food waste to the wrong bin or they don't even know if those trash cans are exist. But the rest of the school population have their lunch packed from home and bring them to school daily. These people find the canteen food not as delicious as the food they bring from home or find the portion of the food a bit too much/ too little so they decide to pack their own lunch with their own amount of food and etc.
There are three lenses of food waste; Economic, Social, and Environment. According to the person that we interviewed, he finds that the canteen food is too expensive, the portion of the food is too much for him, and also it's not as healthy as he thought it would be. Spending a lot of money on food can lead to the economic of the society and it's an advantage for the canteen owner but it's a disadvantage for him. In my case, I ,sometime, bring my food to school but I still find the canteen food really expensive and almost spend, at the very least, RM 15 per day, which is a lot of money to be spent on food. Some people, including myself, have troubles between spending more money on food or save it for the next day. On the other hand, the social impacts such as business can create positive social outcomes by donating unsold food to charities that support people in need. Donating food that we waste each day or limit your food portion to charities is an excellent wat to promote your business, enhancing your business reputation and keeping food waste out of landfill. Currently, charities only collect a small portion of the food that is potentially available and it's not enough to meet demand.
How often do you bring your lunch from home per week?
0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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19
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1
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1
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1
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4
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According to this table, a lot of people in our school buy their lunch from the school canteen, meaning that is it important for us to be providing food that people like, in order to prevent them from wasting it.
Why do we throw it away? too much? sucks? Not hungry?
Doesn't taste good
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Not hungry
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Too much
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2
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5
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3
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I think our main problem is wasting too much food. We would like to see campaigns being spread around, as it is clear that people are not aware of the problem that ISKL possesses. Students don't really care that these composting bins are even exist and some of them don't even know about it. Our idea to force people to use composting bins is to create bigger and brighter bins that get people to notice them. Currently they are little waste bins, which are half the size of the trash bins, and since they are in a dark grey color, they just sort of blend in. A fact of nature is that people are naturally lazy, and having to press on the petal to open the lid is a deal for many people. It would be easier to just have a brightly colored open-lid bin rather than a dark-grey color small bin. This way people will take notice, and hopefully start composting food like they should be.
As a conclusion, we believe that this is a huge problem in our school and we all think we should improve this. It disgusts me to see a lot of food to go waste but I think all of us feel strongly about trying to fix this issue. It is important to save food for people who really need it.
Sincerely,
Sarah Tarigan
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