We all grew up hearing the sentence “Do you know how lucky you are to have food? Children in (insert third world country) have nothing to eat!”. Food waste is an issue a lot of us aren’t aware of and yet it is something we do more often than we realise.
In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Sunway Pyramid, Sunway Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa along with the Sustainable Development Department of Sunway Group, are working together to address food wastage in Malaysia by introducing Food CPR - COMPOST. PLANT. REDUCE.
Sunway City took the first step by means of an on-site compost machine by MAEKO, which is a Malaysian outfit that will be showcased at the UN Solutions Summit in New York next week.
Aimed at educating shoppers on how our choices affect the environment, the Food CPR campaign will be ongoing from now until 6 October 2019 at LG2 Central Avenue. Shoppers can look forward to potting workshops and they can also collect various types of seeds when they download the Sunway Pyramid Mobile App. There will also be a dispenser for compost collection to be used for gardening and planting.
Sunway Pyramid collects 2.4 tonnes of food waste daily and up to 829 tonnes in a year. The Food CPR campaign is targeted at reducing this figure. Going one step further, the mall
will also be able to produce compost with the composting machine that is free for the public to use. The compost produced will be ready to use two weeks after being mixed in garden soil.
On another note, Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa’s own compost machine converts food waste from its cluster of hotels in Sunway City. From July 2019, there have been a total of 5.9 tonnes of food waste converted into compost and by the end of 2019, the hotel expects to compost 20 tonnes of food waste collected from its kitchens. The compost produced is currently used around Sunway City’s landscape with further plans for distribution and utilization to be launched next year.
As of now, the Food CPR campaign has garnered a total of 35 supporting partners and Sunway hopes that more brands will jump on the bandwagon.
Among some of the ways to reduce waste are to order wisely, save leftovers for later, keep track of what you dispose of and to start using compost when gardening.
To learn more about this initiative, watch this. Tips and tricks on how to go green while shopping can also be found here, and for more information on how to compost at home, please watch this video.
Will you be joining this movement?
By: Celestine Foo
