IPOH, April 23 -- Six years ago, architect Alvin Chen was surveying a low-cost housing in Subang Jaya that he had been assigned to refurbish.

During the visit, Chen saw big families being cramped into small units and sharing a plate of white rice.

As fate would have it, he would visit a landfill during the course of his work where he found edible food being left to rot.

That got Chen and his wife Angela turn their backs against their chosen profession and go on to start social enterprise, What a Waste (WaW) that rescues food to be distributed to the needy.

Speaking to Malay Mail, Chen said when they first started in 2018, they worked with families having wedding banquets.

"We gained traction after we started the Say I Do to Environme...