Muscat Governorate launches awareness campaign to reduce food waste

Muscat: Muscat Governorate has launched a multilingual awareness campaign entitled ‘Take Just What You Need’ to raise awareness about preserving food and reducing food waste. This campaign aims to address the issue of food waste by encouraging people to buy or prepare only the amount of food they need, thereby reducing the excess that goes to landfill.

The ‘Take Just What You Need’ campaign is a response to the problem of food waste. Large quantities of food—too many to count—are still thrown in or next to landfills, and over time, these foods spoil, releasing odours that annoy residents of the surrounding area and attract insects and mosquitoes. Additionally, this increases the effort and exhaustion of cleaners and creates the need to expand their efforts to remove the garbage and treat the resulting pollution.

This initiative highlights several key messages that everyone should consider when consuming food, including thanking Allah for His blessings, appreciating blessings, and helping needy people instead of wasting food. Through these initiatives, Muscat Governorate hopes to promote the values of responsibility within the community and raise awareness of appreciating blessings.