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The truth about expired food: how best-before dates create a waste mountain

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/apr/17/the-truth-about-expired-food-how-best-before-dates-create-a-waste-mountain

2.5kg of food a week wasted by each household, equal to half of all household waste: NEA study

S’pore to reduce 30% of waste sent to Semakau landfill by 2030

By 2035, Singapore’s only landfill site will be completely full. What is being done to manage the convenience-minded city-state’s waste crunch?

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Understand Expiration Dates
We are all guilty of throwing away food way before it goes bad, mainly out of fear, but also out of confusion.

Part of the reason we throw away so much food is the ambiguity around the terms "use by," "sell by," and "best by." For the most part, these terms were always intended to help the food industry with quality control when it came to inventory and wholesale transactions.12 In fact, there is no standardized rule for food and expiration dates. This not only confuses consumers, but also worsens the increasing food waste problem.

In short, the sell-by date is a general guide to indicate the overall freshness of a food item, but it is not a definitive consumption date by any means.

Food is distributed at a Food Bank Singapore event in Bedok. Food waste generated in Singapore has increased by 40 per cent in the last decade

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/how-supermarkets-fight-food-waste-in-singapore

How supermarkets fight food waste in Singapore SINGAPORE (THE NEW PAPER) - Last month, 24-hour store Mustafa Centre was found to be disposing of nearly 100kg of fruits and vegetables daily, sparking concerns about food waste in Singapore.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Singapore's food rescuers salvage expired, ugly food to fight waste

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/singapores-food-rescuers-salvage-expired-ugly-food-fight-waste

Singapore's food rescuers salvage expired, ugly food to fight waste Twice a week, Gary Lee makes his way to a childcare centre in central Singapore, not too far from his home. The 36-year-old logistics executive is there for an unlikely reason: the food. He collects leftovers from the childcare centre, which would otherwise be thrown away. When This Week In Asia tag...

Are mom & pop shops here to stay?

Mom & Pop shops offer services, value, and a personal touch that the giant box stores cannot. Mom and Pop stores also return more to the communities that are a part of, the box stores take more money out of communities. Join us in empowering 14000 shops in Singapore!

Q: What marketing tools are the local mom and pop stores using to survive these days?

A: Word of mouth. This is a slow process but basically, their physical plant signage and word of mouth are what they rely on.

Mom & Pop shop owners are really good entrepreneurs, they can provide special customer service with a wealth of knowledge, unique to the market that they do business in. They don’t have endless pockets, so it’s in their best interest to provide outstanding customer service to survive.

What do you miss most about mom and pop shops?

I miss those Sunday morning visits with my dad where I was allowed to buy my favourite candy and the aunty of the shop used to give an additional. Happy days!

Why don’t people shop at local community businesses anymore? Wouldn’t you prefer to support the mom & pop shops? I prefer to shop at mom and pop stores because I always find something unique or different. It’s also fun getting to meet and talk to the owner. They always have a cool story on how they started their store.

Local mom-and-pop stores are a fun place to visit cause customers are well taken care of. Mom & Pop shops are closing everywhere due to lack of sales. Let us help our Singapore Mom & Pop shops 14,000 of them to continue spreading happiness and convenience in the neighbourhood. Let's reduce food wastage and empower them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGNJ_WNq6ns

Local mom-and-pop stores struggling after chain stores open in rural towns

Mom and Pop Stores # # Mom-and-pop hardware store closing
Let's empower the 14,000 Mom & Pop shops in Singapore. Join us to reduce food wastage and increase happiness for our neighbourhood stores.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPwa7JwH7YM

Mom-and-pop hardware store closing American True Value Hardware Store, a mom-and-pop shop, in Chesapeake is closing on December 31, but this is different than any other hardware store.

While growing up we used to shop at neighbourhood Mom & Pop shops however they are struggling to survive now. Join us to empower our people and reduce food wastage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifQCp8W5EZ0

Evening News

Small Business Saturday shines light on mom and pop shops Carter Evans shows how the mom and pop shops of one California town are doing on Small Business Saturday, the day on the American consumer calendar following...

Fighting the Rising Cost of Food: How Mom and Pop Stores are Surviving and Giving Customers Relief. Join us to empower our people !!! Reduce food wastage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=Nnul9rXPAPI

Action News

Fighting the Rising Cost of Food: How Mom and Pop Stores are Surviving and Giving Customers Relief Paul LaGrone reports. Read more here: http://bit.ly/2ajIv7j ◂ The ABC Action News app brings you the latest trusted news and information. ABC Action News is ...

Pope Francis has attacked a “culture of waste” and stressed that discarding food was like stealing from the world’s poor.

ref: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/10101375/Pope-Francis-says-wasting-food-is-like-stealing-from-the-poor.html

Pope Francis says wasting food is like stealing from the poor Pope Francis has attacked a “culture of waste” and stressed that discarding food was like stealing from the world’s poor.

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Less waste, a Better community, a Bigger difference.

FoodWise Sg wants your help to empower the community and reduce food wastage.

FoodWise Sg vision!! Come join us in helping the community and the environment.

Mom & Pop Shops: As kids, we went to these shops to pick things for the house however now with big fancy supermarkets these shops are losing money. FoodWise Sg wants to empower these 14,000 Mom& Pop Shop owners! Join us to reduce food wastage

FoodwiseSg vision: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Care for Our Environment

FoodWiseSg wants to work towards Sustainable Singapore

FoodWiseSg wants to reduce food wastage and will be working to
1: Redistribute Unsold/Excess Food
2: Prevent and Reduce Food Wastage at Source
3: Recycle/Treat Food Waste