{"id":41,"date":"2015-02-10T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpressen-spacious.rhcloud.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2015-02-10T03:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T19:00:45","slug":"hong-kongs-food-waste-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/hong-kongs-food-waste-infographic","title":{"rendered":"[Infographic] Hong Kong&#8217;s Food Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s common knowledge to everyone that we produce waste. But how much <em>food waste<\/em> do we produce in Hong Kong? What I mean by food waste isn\u2019t just the food that you scrape away at the end of a meal, being too full or too dissatisfied with the food to finish it. It\u2019s also the food that restaurant produces and have to throw away at the end of the day, the food that doesn\u2019t fit the standard or food waste created during the cooking progress. Not to mention the food that supermarket disposes of, and they alone contribute 0.9% of the food waste only. Which puts things into prospective if you consider how many supermarkets there are in Hong Kong and how much they are estimated to throw out daily.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Fresh Food In Garbage Can To Illustrate Waste\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/usdagov\/15951717452\/in\/photolist-qiAHRf-eY2ZWa-eY2YJr-eYejKs-boSZx8-bmV9Ah-eYeosm-eY2ZiK-eeR3r3-nQxqKP-eY2Wh2-pduFNe-puY7qJ-pdvLXt-puY7LU-pdvwAU-95HXJV-eY2Xjg-eY2Y5T-eKKfc1-eY2XG8-pe7d1A-eYehsm-eCSRjB-eY2VNX-eY2GeK-eY2U3t-eYed2J-eYecAW-eYedKy-eY2RyM-eYeg21-eY2Qpi-eY2SeK-eYeie3-eYe4EA-eY2yFV-eY2Ey2-eYe1c9-eYe9AC-eY2Mhp-eY2znp-eY2KQt-eY2HsB-eYe6dd-eYdYCd-eY2Pbz-qqqDKy-eY2Gwg-eY2N7v\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7500\/15951717452_db57fddd28_z.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh Food In Garbage Can To Illustrate Waste\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>You might or might not be shocked to find out that 1\/3 of solid waste in Hong Kong are food waste, which amounts to a staggering number of 3,200 tones. For those who can\u2019t picture how much that is, well, it\u2019s the equivalent of 120 double decker buses. And that\u2019s not a monthly or weekly figure, but a daily one. So yes, 3,200 tonnes of food waste are thrown out and dumped in the landfill site very single day.<br \/>\n <a title=\"Landfill in Danbury, Connecticut\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/un_photo\/5413617202\/in\/photolist-boaszJ-hKshpD-9focMC-6UT75-JMKJ9-nE83k-5aoNF5-84fkBW-51xPC3-o7X3u6-onpLJh-sEmNfP-8TzAA6-b3i3iD-dUWDGh-hKrATN-dP8QqE-b3i3zg-2TFce-5UAPUt-6hBZ7Y-9nPLyM-b3ifPF-6P81Cj-51dkPb-2uhpBZ-bv3eUe-bv3ere-hKunTx-tpVFTd-7RTdXx-JavZm-bf4frR-93WiUz-hKr2Ja-8VWFY4-2Xocpk-5PLq97-hKsjJZ-avUbkt-6P81y3-e3cGDE-nqxuWg-hKoFPc-bpW1Uy-JaBHP-2GKTrG-7E6Qob-hp6kj-2XsC6C\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4116\/5413617202_e71dc764b1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Landfill in Danbury, Connecticut\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Where do the food wastes go? You might ask, well, they go to the landfill, of course. But landfills are not unlimited. We only have a certain amount left and statistic shows that the remaining capacities of Hong Kong\u2019s landfill sites, which there are only three, will be exhausted by 2018. So we are only two years off the mark here. That\u2019s not even the bad news \u2013 the commercial and industrial food waste have doubled in the recent years, meaning that if the rate continue to grow, we might be out of landfill before we know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s common knowledge to everyone that we produce waste. But how much food waste do we produce in Hong Kong? What I mean by food waste isn\u2019t just the food that you scrape away at the end of a meal, being too full or too dissatisfied with the food to finish it. It\u2019s also the food that restaurant produces and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong-living","tag-infographic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacious.hk\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}