COMCEC
Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
For 65% of the surveyed hospitality places in Uzbekistan, m a in reason for both solid and liqu id
food waste is related w ith the leftovers of the customers and 15% consider tha t it is because of
too big portions or because of over orders by the customers.
Table 95: Ways of dispose of food waste like tea bags, coffee granules and vegetable peelings
Ways Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Throw them to
normal bin
100% 95% 78% 98% 5% 97% 70%
Special
Recycling
Centre
0% 0% 14% 1% 71% 2% 15%
Dump them to
produce
compass
0% 0% 1% 0% 19% 0% 5%
Throw them to
septic system
0% 0% 2% 1% 5% 0% 0%
Other 0% 5% 5% 1% 0% 1% 10%
In Afghanistan, all the hospitality places th a t responded to the survey on food waste stated tha t
they dispose tea bags, coffee granules and vegetable peelings to a no rm a l bin. In Benin, almost
all the hospitality places (95% ) tha t responded to the survey answered tha t they dispose food
waste like tea bags, coffee granules and vegetable peelings by throw ing them to no rm a l bin. A
clear m ajority o f the Cameroonian hospitality places (78% ) th a t responded to the survey
answered tha t they dispose food waste like tea bags, coffee granules and vegetable peelings by
throw ing them to no rm al bin or to recycling centers (14% ).
In Saudi Arabia, alm ost all the respondents (98% ) to the survey answered tha t they dispose food
waste like tea bags, coffee granules and vegetable peelings by throw ing them to no rm a l bin.
For the vast m ajority of the Senegalese hospitality places (71% ) tha t responded to the survey
food waste dispose tea bags, coffee granules and vegetable peelings to a special recycling center.
Most the others (19% ) dum p them to produce compass.
Clear majority of the Turkish business places tha t were interviewed dispose food waste like tea
bags, coffee granules and vegetable peelings by throw ing them to no rm al bin. Only 2% take them
to a special recycling center.
In Uzbekistan, the clear m ajority o f the hospitality places (70% ) tha t responded to the survey
on food waste stated to dispose tea bags, coffee granules and vegetable peelings to a no rm a l bin.
The rest of the respondents stated tha t they dispose them to a special recycling center (15% ), to
produce compass (5% ) or another place (10% ).
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