A surplus amount of food getting wasted at Pakistani weddings/restaurants.
For a long time, I’ve been following this YouTube channel called ‘THE HACK’ where the guy used to do different challenges, like living on one pound a day, living on food waste. when I saw his videos on food waste, I quickly realized how much food is being wasted in Pakistan in weddings and in restaurants.
When I had to think about ideas for mega project at Amal, I quickly realized that I want to do something related to food waste, After searching for a while on internet and reading some articles I’ve realized that how huge this problem is.
When I talk about Pakistani weddings, I’ve seen this trend that as soon as the food is being served, people rush towards the counter and fill up the plates till the top so that no space is left in their plates and in the hurry of eating everything, they end up wasting approximately half of that food. According to statistics being shared on ‘Parhlo’ Approximately, 40 percent food prepared at different banquet halls is being wasted.
For mega project I decided to work on this, and my problem statment is:
‘Due to surplus amount of food being wasted by the people at weddings, Excess amount of food ends up in waste which could be put in a better use’
As the inspiration behind this idea is Toba Courage from ‘The Hack’, I’ve texted him on Instagram about my idea and this project, as soon as I will get answer from him,I’ll post that.
While I was going through the Online Course 1, I saw the video and read the story of ‘RIZQ’ team of three students from LUMS who are doing a similar project on food waste, they collect the food from Wedding halls and restaraunts and package them and provide that food to needy in a very little amount.
To actually realize about the problem I did a survey too, asking people what they think about food wastage at weddings and how we should cope up with this problem. Here are the responses:
While going through the researching process I realized how ignorant we are towards little things and how without even realizing the impact of little things that we do, we are impacting the whole society. I’m glad that I got a chance to work on this. I hope I’ll be able to play my role in solving this problem.
