Hi everyone, welcome to my new blog, “Food Pollution”. This blog is an academic blog as part of module GE4237, “Environmental Pollution”, I take in NUS currently. I am really excited to journey with you all as we uncover the biggest lies in the food industries and discover potential solutions to the devastating environmental pollution created by the food industries.

To start off, let us break down the various stakeholders in our food industries supply chain, as seen in Fig. 1.

Fig.1: Supply Chain of the food industries (Gabriel, 2016)

While most of us are certainly aware of the food waste at the consumer level, 30-40% of total food production is wasted before it reaches the market.  There are various reasons for this, as seen in Fig. 2.

Fig. 2: Reasons for food loss and waste in the supply chain (Labs, 2019)

In the next few posts, we will be uncovering the food wasted before it even reaches the market. Stay Tune!