COMCEC
Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
Table 54: The ways of disposing food waste like tea bags, coffee granules and vegetable
peelings
Ways of
disposal Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Throw them to
normal bin
100% 100% 85% 97% 10% 98% 90%
Special
Recycling
Center
0% 0% 7% 1% 65% 1% 5%
Dump them to
produce
compass
0% 0% 5% 2% 0% 1% 5%
Throw them to
septic system
0% 0% 3% 0% 25% 0% 0%
In Afghanistan, all the respondents dispose the items to a normal bin (100%]. In Benin, all the
respondents throw the afore mentioned items in normal bin. In Cameroon, the clear majority
(84,54] of the respondents throws the items in normal bin. Almost everybody in Saudi Arabia
throws the afore mentioned items in normal bin.
In Senegal, 65% of the respondents dispose the items to special recycling centers, 25% throw
them to septic system and 10% throw them to normal bin.
Almost all the Turkish participants (98%) throw the food waste like tea bags, coffee granules
and vegetable peelings to a normal bin. Only small percentages stated to take them to special
recycling center (1%) or to dump them to produce compass (1%).
In Uzbekistan, too almost all the respondents dispose the items to a normal bin (90%). The other
dump them to produce compass or dispose them to a special recycling center (5% each).
Table 55: Ways of disposing spoilt milk and other liquids (percentage)
Ways of
disposal Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Dispose them
to toilet
0% 0% 38% 3% 0% 2% 0%
Dispose them
to washbasin
60% 30% 22% 75% 0% 10% 5%
Dispose them
to outside
(garden. river.
lake etc.)
40% 70% 29% 3% 5% 75% 0%
Make cottage
cheese
0% 0% 2% 1% 15% 8% 47%
Take them to
collection sites
0% 0% 9% 18% 80% 5% 47%
Most of the people dispose their spoilt milk and other liquids to the washbasin in Afghanistan.
All the others dispose them outside.
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