What is MAS? & What is this food waste mitigation project?

 What is MAS?

They are a multinational apparel-tech company that is leading the way in ethical and environmentally friendly manufacturing. In our never-ending pursuit of innovation, we work with the top brands in the world and develop alliances that have altered the course of the apparel business.

Today, MAS is the largest exporter from Sri Lanka, where it maintains its headquarters and research  and innovation center, as well as more than 50 apparel and material design, development and manufacturing facilities. 

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What is this food waste mitigation project?

Reducing food loss is the key to achieve zero hunger and meet environmental targets.When food is wasted, more food has to be sourced to meet the food demand and this affects food security. An increasing amount of food waste puts pressure on resources and need to build more waste disposal facilities.It causes serious negative implications with huge costs for all sections of the food supply chain.When food is wasted, all of the resources necessary to grow, transport, and dispose of it are also wasted. This increases carbon footprint, contributing to global warming and climate change.

Therefore it is important to conserve precious resources and need to minimize food wastage and recycle or treat unavoidable food loss. This starts with avoiding food wastage and excess food production.

As you already know food wastage is a huge problem to the company and as well as to the country. Cooperatively with ‘MAS intimates’ taking actions to minimise food losses and saving money is the target of this project.

Under the LFN 2212 Community Link (LinkCom) we have to do food waste mitigation project in MAS -Pannala. After completing this modeule we are going to; 

• Obtain required skills and knowledge to observe and comprehend the actual situation of food production at farmer level.
• Improved sense of risk, risk assessment and health and safety at field level.
• Awareness regarding legal requirements in day to day operations and sensitivity to the impact of investigations on the environment and stakeholders.
• A sense of belonging between the community, themselves and an improved ideas  

With that objectives, our outcomes are;

• Approach and interact with community with confidence and understanding.
• Relate the basic knowledge and skills gained to the real life situations.
• Communicate the health and nutrition messages effectively to the community.
• Propose and develop sustainable solutions for the identified problems in waste mitigation in MAS Pannala.