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Food Bank Singapore

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Formation
  
August 2012 (2012-08)

Founded at
  
Singapore

Founder
  
Nichol Ng Nicholas Ng

Registration no.
  
201200654E

Food Bank Singapore

Type
  
Company Limited by Guarantee

Legal status
  
Charity, Institutions of a Public Character (IPC)

The Food Bank Singapore Ltd. is a registered Charity and Institution of a Public Character (IPC) in Singapore. It operates as a foodbank that collects excess food from food suppliers and re-distributes them to organisations such as old folks' homes, family service centres and soup kitchens. It is a member of the Global Foodbanking Network.

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History

In Singapore the National Environment Agency publishes annual statistics, they show there are 788,600 Tonnes of food is wasted annually in Singapore, the recycling rate is only 13% (where as the overall recycling rate is 60%).

Services

Food Bank Singapore provides the following services and programmes:

  • Food rescue with collecting excess foods from their own bins. Google (3 August 2015). "Food Bank Singapore bins" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 3 August 2015. .

    • References

    Food Bank Singapore Wikipedia
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