Be Careful, Government Will Increase GST On Food Items to Minimise Food Wastage

[JurongEast]

Calls to change eating habits and overhaul food supply chain to cut Singapore's food waste

Along with the race to ramp up local food production aggressively amid battling the Covid-19 pandemic comes another tough nut to crack: the massive amount of food waste generated by the Republic every year. In the first of a six-part series, ST takes a sobering look at the state of food waste in the country and why so much food gets thrown out.

 

[JurongEast]

SINGAPORE - How much money is thrown away through the food waste generated by households here every year?

The answer: $342 million.

If you were off the mark, well, you're not alone. Fewer than one in six got it right - just 16 per cent of respondents - in a Sunday Times poll of 1,000 residents, conducted by online market research firm Milieu Insight last month.

All other respondents underestimated the sum. And what's more, nearly everyone said their households threw out only small or "reasonable" amounts of food.

Respondents were asked 14 multiple-choice questions like the difference between "sell by", "use by" and "best before" dates, and how soon the Semakau landfill would reach capacity.

Close to half - about 47 per cent - got fewer than seven right.

 

[JurongEast]

The findings underpin a six-part series by The Sunday Times in partnership with DBS to understand the scale of food waste in Singapore, and the efforts to tackle it by businesses, local communities and individuals.

Commenting on the survey findings, Dr Augustine Quek, senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore's (NUS) department of chemical and biomolecular engineering and former programme manager at NUS Environmental Research Institute, said: "As the survey shows, people do not believe they waste more food even though they are eating more buffets, catering more food than needed when hosting parties, and not taking away unfinished food when eating out."

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

import so many foreigners why blame sinkies only?
only sinkies waste meh?
knn

 

[syed putra]

Why is najib photo still pasted when he has been deposed?

 

[laksaboy]

They already have a 'water conservation tax' to help you save water, why is it a surprise?

A nation of sheep deserves a government of wolves.

Or as the Tiongs say: it's time to 割韭菜.

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN how would increase gst leeduce food wastage KNN gov think it comes from sinkie buy many and throw KNN bodoh the actual wastage are from the eatery operators KNN my uncle know some lobang for such free food and fruits before they are disposed my uncle will grab some of it either free or at a nominal price KNN they are all fully consumable KNN