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RE: Food Waste Deluxe #1 | Warm-smoked Salmon
Trust me, it is very difficult to get cooperation with stores here is Sweden as well, if not harder. There is no difference with profit driven entities no matter which country you are operating in.
However is should be much easier for people in Malaysia to change their mindset about food waste compared to Sweden, sine people still have knowledge how to live on scarce resources.
I still urge you to ask yourself and the organisations you cooperate with: Why they need money to save food that is being wasted ? The wasted food is the currency and the tool for change.
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I believe there is a misunderstood statement here somewhere along the line.
The near expiry food are shipped over by CSR organisations for free to the Food Bank.
(provided they agree to such arrangements)
But the Food Bank actually use donation money to get fresh items like potatoes and onions to encourage a healthy lifestyle.
Most of the near expiry food the organisations in Malaysia are willing to let go are not that healthy (with all the hidden sugar in it).
Good quality stuffs like smoke salmon as you guys have showcased are not released out by grocers even; because these are imported items for Malaysia and they are usually very expensive.
As you said, they will probably benefit it first before anyone else (especially under privileged families) get to even taste it.
They would rather slash it to 50 - 70% discount to shoppers until it is fully expired. And even with expired items they will not give it away.
And just so we (both accounts) do not paint a default mindset of each others' countries, people (generally) are still wasteful until they truly are expose to such awareness.
And this is where non-profit organisations like the Food Bank try their best to reach out to organisations and also at the same time write newsletters (like the steem blockchain) to keep readers informed.
We not only have to inform the public about the food waste problem and what to do about it.
But also inform the non-profit organisations that collecting more money will never solve the food waste problem that is caused by the belive in money, or any other social problems in our society.
When you see any organisation asking for money donations, be very sceptical and ask questions or you are just wasting your time.
Keep up the good work.