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    1) Globally, 1/3 of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted every year, amounting to 1.3 billion tonnes of food, enough to feed 815 million hungry people four times. In Singapore, 2 million tonnes of food is imported annually but 393,000 tonnes is lost. 2) Food waste is commonly generated when home cooks purchase excess ingredients that go uneaten. On average, each person in Singapore throws away about 62kg or 177 cans of food per year. 3) Educating consumers, rationalizing marketing practices, and shifting perceptions of ugly foods are proposed as solutions to reduce food wastage.

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    1) Globally, 1/3 of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted every year, amounting to 1.3 billion tonnes of food, enough to feed 815 million hungry people four times. In Singapore, 2 million tonnes of food is imported annually but 393,000 tonnes is lost. 2) Food waste is commonly generated when home cooks purchase excess ingredients that go uneaten. On average, each person in Singapore throws away about 62kg or 177 cans of food per year. 3) Educating consumers, rationalizing marketing practices, and shifting perceptions of ugly foods are proposed as solutions to reduce food wastage.

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    Food Wastage Infographic

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    Alina Toh
    1) Globally, 1/3 of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted every year, amounting to 1.3 billion tonnes of food, enough to feed 815 million hungry people four times. In Singapore, 2 million tonnes of food is imported annually but 393,000 tonnes is lost. 2) Food waste is commonly generated when home cooks purchase excess ingredients that go uneaten. On average, each person in Singapore throws away about 62kg or 177 cans of food per year. 3) Educating consumers, rationalizing marketing practices, and shifting perceptions of ugly foods are proposed as solutions to reduce food wastage.

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    eat already?

    FOOD WASTAGE

    Global singapore
    1/3 of food produced in the world for human 2 million tonnes of food is imported into Singapore,
    consumption every year, ~1.3 billion tonnes gets 393,000 tonnes lost. Each household here throws away an
    lost or wasted = enough to feed 815 million hungry estimated S$258 worth of food. (S$342 million annually)
    people in the world 4 times
    Food waste is often generated when home cooks buy
    Every year 6 billion pounds of fruits & vegs ingredients in bulk from grocery stores and are left with
    unharvested or unsold for aesthetics reasons excess ingredients after cooking.

    80% of world’s deforestation which eliminates ~62kg of food is lost per person each year (177 cans of 350g
    wildlife habitats and removes greenhouse-gas- canned tomato soup)
    absorbing trees, trapping heat within the 1 tonne = 1000kg
    atmosphere and warms the planet 2 million tonne =1814369480kg = 70634 trucks
    CAUSES
    Singapore’s Efforts
    Theory of Planned Behavior
    Fail to see a clear established link between our attitude and action Treatsure 01
    Behavioral Control /Subjective Subject Norm-> Takeaway buffet-in-a-box
    Specific attitudes -> Behavioral intent -> Behavior (Food Wastage) concept where users purchase
    a takeaway box in the last 45
    unaware of consequences mins of buffet meal slots
    Aware of problem but not the impact and pack what they want

    impulse and bulk purchase Ugly Food 02

    Marketing gimmicks influence decisions Ugly food tastes just as good as


    perfect-looking food and is as
    rejection of ugly foods nutritious, cosmetic filtering
    Ugly foods are associated with poor quality
    Changi Airport 03
    Food waste put into a digester
    where microbes break down food
    waste into water, which is reused
    Solution
    to water the gardens

    educate them on food wastage


    Immersive exhibition to highlight severe consequences
    “ Saving
    rationalize marketing gimmicks trashed food has
    Campaign to raise awareness on shopping prudently become a matter of
    international
    shift perception of ugly foods
    Application to encourage cooking ugly meals
    ugency. ”

    #eatalready IP19 — Alina, Amanda, Dionne, Inez, Kriti, Xiao Wei

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