Published: Tuesday January 5, 2010 MYT 12:00:00 AM Updated:
Thursday June 13, 2013 MYT 2:24:29 AM  New use for food scraps
Almost half of our discards can be recycled to make our gardens
flourish.  LOOK into your trash bin. What have you got in there?
If you have been recycling religiously, sending all your paper,
plastics, metals and glass to the recycling centre, all that’s
left in the bin would be kitchen scraps. Why not go a bit
further with your green efforts and recycle even that as well?
Almost half of our discards has no place in the trash bin, being
organic waste which can be recycled through composting, to
become food for the soil. Given that Malaysian households
generate over 17,000 tonnes of refuse a year, a figure that is
projected to rise to 30,000 tonnes within the next decade, we
can significantly cut down on what goes into our trash cans and
ultimately, into landfills, through composting.  The Solid Waste
Management and Public Cleansing Corporation has that in mind,
and so plans to include