Food waste in the hospital / Mohamad Ikhmal Zolkefli & Nurshafiqah Arafah Din

This study empirically examines factors affecting food waste among hospitalized patients and the initiatives to deal with the issues. Through data reported from previous researchers on the factor affecting fold waste in hospital, there are some solutions gathered as an initiatives. The factor of increasing g food waste among hospitalized patients have been determine, which are the environment of ward and taste of the food. In addition, there a lot of factor that affecting food waste in hospital but there only three factor that contribute more. Meanwhile, the common problem that comes out related food waste is all about uneaten or untouched food provided. From the data collected by the previous researchers, some initiatives to overcome the issue of food waste among hospitalized patients could be determined. At the end of the study, an initiative should be implementing by the hospital in order to deal with the food waste management.