Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
COMCEC
The most common way of disposing spoilt milk and other liquids according to the participants
to the survey in Benin is to dispose them outside (70%] or to the washbasin (30%).
The most way of disposing spoilt milk and other liquids in Cameroon is to dispose them to toilets
for 38% of the respondents. 29% Dispose them to outside and 22% dispose them to washbasin.
Many the Saudi participants stated that they dispose spoilt milk and other liquids to washbasin
(75%). The other quite frequent stated behavior is to bring them to collection site (18%).
The most common way of disposing spoilt milk and other liquids according to the participants
to the survey in Senegal is to dispose them to collection sites (for 80% of the surveyed cases].
Most the Turkish participants stated that they dispose spoilt milk and other liquids to washbasin
(75%). 10% reported to dispose them to toilet and 2% dispose them outside. On the other hand,
a small percentage of the respondents take them to collection sites (5%) or make cottage cheese
(8%).
The most common way of disposing spoilt milk and other liquids according to the participants
to the survey in Uzbekistan is to dispose them to collection sites or to make cottage cheese (each
proposition receiving 47% of the responses in this country).
Table 56: Categories of food that the respondents overbuy and dispose
Categories of
food Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Bakery products 35% 0% 25% 0% 0% 26% 0%
Dairy products 12% 0% 7% 15% 15% 18% 6%
Fruit &
Vegetables
47% 95% 54% 25% 25% 49% 76%
Sweets 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Meat/Fish/
Chicken Products
6% 5% 9% 60% 60% 3% 6%
Others 0% 0% 4% 0% 0% 4% 12%
35% of the Afghanistan people that were surveyed stated that bakery products are the category
of food that they overbuy and dispose the most. 47% reported to overbuy and dispose fruits and
vegetables the most and 12% reported to overbuy and dispose dairy products the most.
Food and vegetables is the category of food that Beninese respondents answered to overbuy and
dispose the most (for 95% of them].
Food and vegetables is the category of food that Cameroonian respondents answered to overbuy
and dispose the most (54%), followed by Bakery products (25%).
67% of the surveyed persons in Saudi Arabia reported that the products they overbuy and then
end up throwing them out are bakeries, followed by dairy products (14%) and then fruits and
vegetables (13%).
Meat/fish/chicken products is the category of food that Senegalese respondents answered to
overbuy and dispose the most (for 60% of them), followed by fruits and vegetables (25%) and
dairy products (15%).
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