Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
COMCEC
When Uzbekistan respondents were asked about the key causes to get rid of the food that is not
eaten, the most frequently mentioned reason was health reasons (56%), followed by food
poisoning (28%) and then to keep the fridge clean and I prefer fresh daily cookedfood (8% each).
Table 53: The ways of disposing the food that is not eaten
Frequency Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Nearest Bin 65% 60% 61% 29% 87% 53% 25%
Special food
waste collector
5% 0% 6% 16% 0% 77% 5%
Give it
to animals
10% 35% 22% 23% 12% 22% 55%
Give it
to charities
0% 0% 6% 6% 0% 48% 10%
Give it to
poor people
20% 5% 8% 25% 1% 0% 5%
Dump it to
produce compass
65% 60% 61% 29% 87% 53% 25%
In Afghanistan, most people that were interviewed reported to dispose the food that is not eaten
to the nearest bin. Otherwise, 20% give to poor people and 10% to animals.
Most of the respondents to the survey lead in Benin dispose the uneaten food in the nearest bin
(60%). Most of the other reported to give it to animals (35%).
A strong majority of the respondents dispose the uneaten food in the nearest bin in Cameroon.
Otherwise, 22% give it to animal. The rest of the respondents are divided in the ways they
dispose the uneaten food.
In Saudi Arabia, 29% of the people dispose the food that is not eaten into the nearest bin, 25%
of them give it to poor people, 23% give it to animals and 16% of them collect it in special food
waste collector.
Most of the respondents to the survey lead in Senegal dispose the uneaten food by giving it to
animals. Most of the others reported to give it to poor people (25%).
Of all the Turkish participants, majority (87%) informed that they dispose the food that is not
eaten by throwing into the nearest bin. 12% reported that they give it to animals and only 1%
give it to poor people.
Most the respondents to the survey lead in Uzbekistan dispose the uneaten food by giving it to
animals (55%). 25% dispose it to the nearest bin and 10% give it to charities. 5% give to poor
people or dispose it to a special food waste collector.
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