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Can Singapore get to zero food waste? Yes, but go easy on the buffet
Singapore is stepping up efforts to turn food waste trash into treasure. To get there, households will need to play a key role.
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Nothing quite says excess like the corporate feasting during the Christmas and Chinese New Year festive period.
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I always feel a bit guilty tucking into a lavish buffet. The sheer abundance and variety of food, continuously topped up, is wonderous but also worrying. But after the feasting, reality hits: food wastage.
“Fifty per cent of food from buffets is wasted,” the head chef of an upscale Singapore hotel told me recently.
