There’s a great effort happening in the city to stop food going to waste during the fasting month of Ramadan.
Bernama reports that the Kuala Lumpur Tower (KL Tower) is working with several non-governmental organisations to curb food wastage from popular Ramadan buffet spreads.
KL Tower’s chief executive officer, Meor Shahril Anuar Ahmad Rathuan was quoted as saying that its surplus untouched food would go to the needy through relevant NGOs.
“In previous years, we only accepted customers who had made early bookings to avoid wastage. Only allowed 10 to 11 walk-in customers were allowed,” he was quoted as saying.
“Through this method, we were able to forecast the amount of food required and we avoided preparing excess food,” Meor Shahril was quoted further.
He told Bernama that if customers did end up wasting good food, KL Tower would simply remind them ‘not to be greedy’ instead of imposing fines.
A news report in June last year said that some 270,000 tonnes of good-to-eat food are thrown away during the fasting month.
The Solid Waste And Public Cleansing Management Corporation (SWCorp) had said back then that this amount of food could feed 180 million people and that if piled up, could reach a height equivalent to 30 KLCC buildings.
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