Reducing Food Waste
In the OIC Member Countries
COMCEC
Table 96: Percentage of customers who takes home the leftover food
Percentage Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
<15 85% 95% 69% 36% 58% 81% 40%
15-30 10% 5% 21% 13% 43% 11% 25%
30-50 5% 0% 7% 6% 5% 7% 15%
50-70 0% 0% 1% 5% 0% 1% 15%
70+ 0% 0% 1% 39% 0% 0% 5%
Vast majority of the Afghanistan hospitality places th in k tha t less than 15% of their customers
take their leftovers back home. 10% repo rt abou t 15-30% of their customers and 5% abou t 30 ­
50 of their customers. A lmost all the Beninese food business places answered tha t less than 15%
of their customers take back home their food leftovers (95% ). A strong majority (69% ) of the
Cameroonian business places stated tha t less than 15% o f their customers take back home their
food leftovers. 21% reported tha t 15 to 30% of their customers take back hom e their food
leftovers.
In Saudi Arabia, 36% o f the respondent business places stated tha t less than 15% of their
customers take back home their food leftovers. A sim ilar percentage of them (39% ), however,
answered tha t more than 70% o f their customers take back home their food leftovers. The rest
of the surveyed hospitality places are divided in their answers.
Many the Senegalese food business (58% ) answered tha t less than 15% o f their customers take
back home their food leftovers, whereas 43% tha t between 15 and 30% take it back home. In
Turkey, the clear m ajority (81% ) of the respondent business places stated tha t less than 15% of
their customers take home the leftover food. Moreover, a small percentage of the respondents
(1% ) reported tha t the 50-70% of their customers take the leftover food. Uzbekistan hospitality
places are quite divided as for the percentage of their customers takes their food leftovers back
home. The m o st chosen answer is less than 15% (for 40% of the food businesses surveyed). 25%
though t tha t 15-30% of their customers take their food leftovers back home while 15% either
though t tha t 30-50% were tak ing them back home or 50-70%.
Table 97: Agreement with the statement "Discarded food packaging is a greater
environmental concern than food waste”
Agreement Afghanistan Benin Cameroon SaudiArabia Senegal Turkey Uzbekistan
Fully Agreed 10% 11% 23% 10% 19% 55% 45%
Agreed 35% 53% 35% 78% 67% 11% 10%
Don’t Know 35% 21% 24% 5% 14% 3% 20%
Not Agreed 20% 16% 11% 7% 0% 12% 25%
Not Agreed at all 0% 0% 8% 0% 0% 19% 0%
Am ong the Afghanistan respondents to the survey, 35% d id n 't know w h a t to answer to the
statement according to which discarded food is a greater environmental concern than food
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