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. 2022 Aug 29:2022:6729248.
doi: 10.1155/2022/6729248. eCollection 2022.

Food Waste Behaviour and Awareness of Malaysian

Chooi Lin Phooi  1 , Elisa Azura Azman  1 , Roslan Ismail  2   3 , Jasmin Arif Shah  4 , Evelyn Shin Rou Koay  5
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Food Waste Behaviour and Awareness of Malaysian

Chooi Lin Phooi et al. Scientifica (Cairo). .

Abstract

Food waste is a vast issue global, including in Malaysia. Food waste brings negative impacts, including increasing food production costs, impact on human health, and environmental degradation. Malaysian's animal- and plant-based diet preferences affected the desired food waste decomposition method as most of the methods only allow plant-based material to be utilized as food waste compost. The objectives of this study were to understand Malaysians' awareness of food waste behaviour and the food waste component for the decomposition. Malaysians usually produce more plant-based food waste than animal-based food waste. Most Malaysians have a high awareness of causes and impact of food waste, but they lack action on food waste reduction. Bio-compost is believed to be the most effective method to manage food waste, and most of them were willing to have it at home. However, some of them are unwilling to have a compost pile at home because there is no time to take care of it.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Figures

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Figure 1
Distribution of the respondents in Malaysia.
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Figure 2
Food waste composition such as raw animal-based, raw plant-based, cooked animal-based, and cooked plant-based wasted as none, one spoon, one spoon to 1 plate, one plate to 1 pot, and more than one pot. The assumption was made as one serving spoon is equal to 50 grams, one plate is equal to 500 grams, and one pot is equal to 1000 grams.
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Figure 3
Household skills claimed by respondents.
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Figure 4
Household size of the Malaysians.
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Figure 5
Reasons for food waste declared by respondents.
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Figure 6
The most serious food waste banquet believed by Malaysians.
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Figure 7
Current food waste reasons believed by Malaysians.
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Figure 8
Perception of food waste.
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Figure 9
Perception of food waste impact.
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Figure 10
Effective ways to reduce food waste believed by respondents.
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Figure 11
Food waste management claimed by respondents.
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Figure 12
The effective ways for reducing food waste that Malaysians believe.
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Figure 13
Willingness to have a composting pile at home.
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