Zero-Waste Cooking: 10 Tips to Waste Nothing in Your Kitchen

The average Hongkonger throws away 71 kg of household food waste every year - the weight of a full-grown adult. Multiply that across 7.7 million people, and more than 3,600 tonnes of food heads to landfill or the incinerator every single day. About 68% of all food waste in Hong Kong originates not from restaurants, but from home kitchens: uneaten meals, forgotten leftovers, produce that wilted before it got cooked.