Food waste can be defined as any potential source of food that has knowingly been discarded or

destroyed, for example the food discarded in factories, food not sold in shops or restaurants, kitchen
scraps, and plate waste. Food loss could be used to refer to food that has inadvertently been destroyed
or spoiled, like a stored grain eaten by rats, meat spoiled by bacterial growth and nutrients destroyed or
going into solution in vegetable canning.

Impacts of food waste on the environment are including:

• Food waste that ends up in landfills produces a large amount of methane (which more powerful
greenhouse gas than CO2).

• Food waste ends up wasting nearly a quarter of our water supply in the form of uneaten food.

The proposal that has been proposed is going to be raising awareness among school children, teachers,
staff of SM Teknik, Lahad Datu and the society on food loss and waste issues by contributing in
composting food waste. Since there is a cafeteria for the communities of SM Teknik, Lahad Datu to have
their meal, there is a dustbin available to throw away the leftover foods, but they do not have a proper
composting food center which then can be recycled to be a useful matter.

Thus, by the help of this proposed project we will be educating them to throw the wastes in a proper
center which we have planned to construct a proper composting food center using interlocking brick
which also fabricated from waste material (palm oil) and furthermore, so that they will enhance their
knowledge on what should be done with the wasted food instead of just throwing it away to waste and
ends up damaging the environment. At the same time, this project should also be engaged in
soil/compost income generating. Further details will be explain below.