Food sustainability means being responsible for taking care of the environment around us by making the right choices.

Children can play their part by making sure not to waste food. While there are activities and programmes to educate children in this regard, I feel more can be done.

Despite Singapore being such a small country, more than 650,000 tonnes of food are wasted here every year.

Perhaps the Health Promotion Board could launch a campaign to promote food sustainability.

Ways one can help include acts of omission such as not buying more than what we need and eating less meat or dairy foods, and acts of commission such as growing one's own vegetables and cooking at home.

Avoiding food that has been shipped from far away at the cost of a great many resources in favour of locally produced foods is another good way.

We can all play our part to make Singapore more sustainable.

Avishi Gurnani, 11
Primary 5 pupil

Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/forum/voices-of-youth-many-ways-for-kids-to-play-their-part-in-food-sustainability