In collaboration with Food Angel, the renowned NGO specializing in food rescue and food assistance, the research team of the Public and Social Policy Research Centre at A&SS has conducted a questionnaire survey on Food Waste and Food Rescue between mid-May and mid-June 2025. More than 800 respondents had provided their valuable opinions by completing the online questionnaires of the survey. The findings showed that majority of the respondents (81.6%) agreed that food donation is an effective way of environmental protection. However, only 34.0% of them had ever donated food to any food rescue organizations. The major impediment to their participation in food donation is “lack of convenient collection points” (58.1%). Moreover, 49.2% respondents indicated their awareness that commercial organizations had involved in food rescue projects. Majority of this group of respondents (84.6%) agreed that the involvement of commercial organizations in food rescue activities would boost up their own motivation of food donation. Based on these findings, it is suggested that the provision of more collection points could enhance the willingness of citizen to donate their surplus food, and the involvement of commercial organization in food rescue activities could motivate more citizens to participate in food donation.
Dr Chan Wai Leung, the principal investigator of the research project, shared the survey above survey findings in the “City Food Drive 2025 Kick-off Ceremony” on 2 July 2025. This is the opening ceremony of the food donation campaign jointly organized by Food Angel and ParkNShop.
