A total of 47,610kg of food, enough to feed 39,675 people, is wasted each day by Ramadan bazaar vendors in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.

Ummi Kalthum Shuib, director of the Federal Territories Solid Waste and Public Cleansing Management Corporation (SWCorp), reported that the organisation's investigation revealed that 5,694 commercial lots in the two Federal Territories generated an average of 52,900 kg of food waste everyday.

  
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According to their calculation, 90% of wastage found in garbage bins around that area consists of food mainly from the Ramadhan bazaar.

"If we calculate 90% of 52,900kg, it's 47,610kg and if it's divided by per capita food consumption per day, which is 1.2kg, we could've fed 39,675 people with that amount of food waste," Khalthum Shuib explained.

This issue, she continued, partially comes from a few sellers who sell pre-packed food or kuih that are too much for single consumption which eventually leads to food wastage.

"You cannot buy just two kuih, you have to buy five. We want to try two types of kuih, but we can't, and if we buy two, we can't finish them," she said, referring to the sellers' modus operandi.

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