MAEKO Academy · Employee Development · CSR

Practical food-waste training for your team.

Awareness talks, segregation and composting workshops, and community programmes for the people who handle food waste every day.

Eligible employers may claim approved training costs through HRD Corp.

HRD Corp Registered Training Provider — explore the courses and funding conditions below.

Request a workshop →What we teach

In short

What it is, and what it asks of you.

What it covers

Sessions from a one-room awareness talk to hands-on composting. They also cover food-waste segregation with the data taken and the carbon footprint worked out, upcycling, worm bins and planting. “Eco Hero” packages bundle them — ask us which package carries the sessions your site needs.

Who it is for

Corporate staff and community groups. In a kitchen that means the people who will actually load the machine. Include the kitchen crew, cleaning team and the people responsible for daily operations.

How long it takes

Half a day or a full day, on your site.

How many people

Five to thirty in a session.

What it costs

RM4,500 to RM10,900 per package. Eligible employers may claim it through HRD Corp.

What participants will be able to do

Compost by a method they can repeat without you, segregate food waste properly at the bin, and say what the waste is costing. On the DIY course they leave holding the bottle they built.

Planning your session

A session comes to your site, so nobody travels and nobody books a room off-premises. Monthly sessions are available; ask us about dates for your team. The awareness talk can also run online, which takes the least time out of a working kitchen.

A MAEKO trainer helps a seated participant fit a handle to a cut-down plastic bottle, with a row of adults doing the same along the table. — A session, on site An upcycling session at a meeting-room table: drinks bottles cut down and rebuilt, with a MAEKO trainer on the right. Faces digitally replaced for privacy.

Courses

What we teach.

The sessions we run, listed below. Tell us which your site needs and we will say which “Eco Hero” package carries them.

Session	What happens	Who it is for	Format
Food waste awareness talk	Where food waste comes from and what it costs. People ask questions and discuss.	Staff, community groups	On site or online
DIY composting workshop	Hands-on composting. Everyone gets a bottle to compost in, and there is a talk with questions at the end.	Staff, schools, community	On site
Food waste segregation workshop	How to separate food waste properly, with a demonstration. Includes taking the data and working out the carbon footprint.	Kitchen and cleaning teams	On site
Upcycling workshop	Hands-on. Materials provided.	Staff, community	On site
Vermi composting workshop	Build a worm home. Kit and materials provided.	Staff, schools	On site
Grow your own food	An easy way to plant your own food, hands-on, with the planting material provided.	Staff, community	On site
Seed cookies workshop	Seed cookies made from recycled paper and compost. A family session.	Families, community	On site
Composting-on-wheels	A composting truck comes to the community. People bring food waste and take compost home.	Neighbourhoods, councils	On site
Container composting	Food waste handled properly at an event, with a live demonstration on site.	Events	On site

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MAEKO’s stand at an event: staff explaining a small stainless composter to visitors across a counter of leaflets, under a MAEKO backdrop. — MAEKO on a stand The banner on the right shows it in one picture. Food waste goes one way into a bin and a truck, and the other way into a composter and back into the soil. Faces digitally replaced for privacy.

01 · For your own staffEDP — Employee Development Programme

Training your own people, so the habit sticks after the machine arrives. This is the one eligible employers may claim through HRD Corp, and the one a kitchen buys.

What EDP days have included

Food waste awareness talk
DIY composting workshop
Herb garden planting
Composting technology demonstration
On-site food waste management
Food waste awareness dialogue

02 · For your community obligationCSR — Corporate Social Responsibility

Community programmes your staff take part in, which count towards your CSR commitments. We have run these with residents’ associations, a wet market, a mosque, schools, a shelter home, a police station and DBKL.

Explore the community programmes below

Ten programmes, with their partners or settings
Composting on site, then planting with what it makes
At PPR Beringin, the compost and the vegetables are sold at the market

The claim-back

Eligible employers may claim approved training costs.

HRD Corp Registered
Training Provider

MAEKO is an HRD Corp Registered Training Provider. Eligible registered employers may claim approved training costs through HRD Corp. The claim is subject to programme registration, grant approval, levy balance and the usual claim conditions.

Registered training provider No. Siri 201601016426, held by MAEKO Sales & Services (M) Sdn Bhd.

Plan the grant application before you confirm training dates. HRD Corp currently requires in-house training to start at least 14 days after grant approval. Tell us how many people you want to train and where, and we will send you what you need for the claim.

There is a second claim-back, and it is not this one HRD Corp is about the training. The Green Investment Tax Allowance is about the machine. It works differently, and it is often described as “60% off” when it is not. What GITA really means, and the eligibility checks →

Before your finance team applies, ask us for the exact programme number, quotation, course content and trainer profile for your booking.

Outcomes

What they leave able to do.

Line drawing: two hands holding a cut-down plastic bottle rebuilt as a small compost vessel — dry leaves at the bottom, soil above, kitchen scraps on top, air holes near the shoulder.

Learn how to separate food waste and choose what can be composted.

Cut food waste in practical ways, at work and at home.

Understand what the waste actually does to the environment.

Compost by a method anyone can follow, and repeat it without us.

Build an eco-conscious culture that holds inside the organisation.

All of it in an interactive session, with MAEKO’s composting trainers.

CSR

Programmes we have already run.

Ten programmes we have already run, with the partner or the setting named for each.

Two women in red shirts beside a food-waste bin at a wet market. — A community session Food-waste outreach at a wet market, with a bin for separated food waste.

Programme	Partner or setting	What happened
Kampung Prai	Community	Composting on site, and urban farming with the compost.
RA SS20	Residents’ association	Composting on site, and urban farming with the compost.
PPR Beringin	DBKL	A community programme with the TTDI wet market — food waste turned into compost and vegetables, sold at the market to bring in income.
TTDI Mosque	Mosque	A food waste talk, and composting on site.
UNESCO Green Club	Schools	Composting on site with the club.
Orang Asli skill programme	Community	DIY composting, planting with compost, urban farming.
Shelter home	Shelter home	A composting programme and planting with the compost.
School children	Schools	DIY composting and planting.
Balai Polis	Police station	A food waste engagement programme and composting on site.
CNY open house, Petaling Jaya	Community	Food waste separation and composting at the open house.

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MAEKO’s bright green shipping-container composting unit, open along one side, standing on a paved public plaza with MAEKO flags around it. — Container composting A whole composting unit taken to the **Kuala Lumpur 2017 SEA Games**, opened up on site with the bin beside it.

A police officer tips a stainless bowl of food scraps into the open lid of a MAEKO composter. — Balai Polis **A food waste engagement programme, composting on site.** This is the machine in use, loaded by the people who work there. Faces digitally replaced for privacy.

Request a workshop

Tell us how many people, and where.

Half-day or full-day sessions, for five to thirty people. Packages run from RM4,500 to RM10,900. Eligible employers may claim approved costs, subject to HRD Corp's programme and grant conditions.

Give us the headcount, the site and roughly what your team already does with the food waste. We will come back with the sessions that fit and the dates we run them. Your finance team gets what it needs for the HRD Corp claim.

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