A number of restaurants and organizations in Taiwan are being lauded for cutting down on food waste.
October 16 is World Food Day. The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) for the first time on Tuesday gave recognition to organizations and restaurants that are taking steps to avoid wasting food. The EPA said one third of the world’s food is wasted, according to UN statistics. That amount of unused food took up 1.4 billion hectares of land to grow and produced 4 billion tons of carbon emissions annually.
Starting from June, the EPA launched a campaign to teach people to cut down on kitchen waste from the source. At a ceremony on Tuesday, a total of 38 restaurants and four organizations were recognized for their actions to cut back on waste. The award-winning restaurants said they could not bear to see children die of hunger while food goes to waste. Their motto is that leftover food should never end up in the trash.