Portraits of Purpose

Bringing buyers and sellers of surplus food together

Mr Preston Wong, 31, chief executive and lead innovator at treatsure. ST PHOTO: JUDITH TAN
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Mr Preston Wong, 31, is chief executive and lead innovator at Treatsure, an app that serves as a mobile market place for businesses and consumers to sell and buy surplus food that would otherwise go to waste.

A: I saw my family throwing out consumables and expiring surplus food from our refrigerator and realised others are probably doing the same, perpetuating the problem of food wastage. An idea then sprang to mind. What if I were to build a platform to sell or share surplus food items?

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on November 29, 2020, with the headline Bringing buyers and sellers of surplus food together. Subscribe