Recognised every year, 2015 to 2025.
MAEKO was founded in 2011 and began selling commercially in 2015. The first award came the same year, with recognition in every year through 2025. Behind all of them is one line of work: food waste treated where it is made, instead of carted away and buried.
Six trophies in the cabinet ↓
2015 – 2025
recognised
We were one
eleven years running
Ten went to New York.
One of ten solution makers presenting at the UN General Assembly.
MAEKO was selected as one of the ten global sustainable solution makers presenting at the United Nations Solution Summit 2019, during the UN General Assembly in New York.
Convened by LOCAL 2030, the United Nations Foundation, Global Innovation Exchange and shift7
The five Sustainable Development Goals the summit entry was set against
All of it, year by year.
Every entry in the record, 2015 to 2025.
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2015
BEST Food Waste Innovation Technology
Frost & Sullivan -
2016
BEST Women LED Entrepreneur Award
Global Cleantech Innovation Programme -
2017/18
BEST Greentech Company Award
CRADLE -
2018
Malaysia Gold Award · Most Popular Matchmaking Award · Project Excellence Award
IPIEC GlobalGlobal Tech Pioneer Award (New Energy Technology)
Convention on Exchange of Overseas Talent, China -
2019
Life Changing Award
CRADLESolution Summit, New York — one of ten solution makers
United Nations -
2020
2nd Runner Up, ASEAN, Japan & Korea region
“Maker in China” International SME Innovation & Entrepreneurship Contest GlobalMalaysia Recipient
Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific, created with Barclays US -
2021
IMPACT INNOVATOR Recipient
The Circular Accelerator Program with UpLink and the World Economic ForumPublic Recognition — Sustainability Leadership
Malaysia GPM Sustainability Awards 2021 -
2022
Malaysia Winner
SHIFT Impact AustraliaBionexus Status Readiness Award
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2023
Food System Change Makers Award
Impact Circle · Food & Drinks Malaysia by S.I.A.L., Kuala LumpurSelangor Accelerator Programme (SAP) 2023 Top 10 Winners
SIDEC -
2024
Food System Ambassador
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2025
ESG Excellence Award
Sin Chew Business Excellence Awards 2025
Every entry, in full
2015–2016
Frost & Sullivan Award — BEST Food Waste Innovation Technology
Malaysia Technology Innovation Award, food waste management industry
Global Cleantech Innovation — BEST Women LED Entrepreneur Award
Global Cleantech Innovation Programme for SMEs in Malaysia · awarded to Chelsea Chee, founder
2017–2019
CRADLE Award — BEST Greentech Company Award
Intellectual Property Innovation & Entrepreneurship Contest Global (IPIEC)
- Malaysia Gold Award Recipient 2018
- Most Popular Matchmaking Award 2018
- Project Excellence Award 2018
Convention on Exchange of Overseas Talent, China — Global Tech Pioneer Award (New Energy Technology)
CRADLE Award — Life Changing Award
United Nations Solution Summit, New York — 10 global sustainable solution maker
One of ten solution makers2020–2021
“MAKER IN CHINA” INTERNATIONAL SME INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONTEST GLOBAL
2nd Runner Up in ASEAN, Japan & Korea regionUnreasonable Impact Asia Pacific created with Barclays US — Malaysia Recipient
The Circular Accelerator Program collaboration with UpLink and World Economic Forum
IMPACT INNOVATOR Recipient
Malaysia GPM Sustainability Awards 2021 — Public Recognition — Sustainability Leadership
2022–2025
SHIFT Impact Australia — Malaysia Winner
Bionexus Status Readiness Award
Impact Circle — Food System Change Makers Award
Food & Drinks Malaysia by S.I.A.L. · Kuala Lumpur
SIDEC Selangor Accelerator Programme (SAP) 2023 Top 10 Winners
Food System Ambassador
Sin Chew Business Excellence Awards 2025 — ESG Excellence Award
Awarded to Mentari Alam Eko (M) Sdn Bhd
Six trophies, 2015 to 2025.
Malaysia Technology Innovation Award (in the Food Waste Management Industry) 2015, presented to Mentari Alam Eko (M) Sdn Bhd
GCIP 2016, Best Women Led · awarded to Chelsea Chee, founder
Mentari Alam Eko (M) Sdn Bhd, 2016, Global Cleantech Innovation Programme For SME’s in Malaysia.
Impact Circle Food Systems Change Maker Award, MAEKO, The Future of Food & Agriculture, Food & Drinks Malaysia by S.I.A.L., 4–6 July 2023, Kuala Lumpur
Top 10, Selangor Accelerator Programme 2023
Sin Chew Business Excellence Awards 2025, awarded to Mentari Alam Eko (M) Sdn Bhd
Awards are the story. Certification is the paperwork.
A prize says somebody was impressed. A certificate is what a compliance team checks — the MyHIJAU Mark and the HRD Corp Registered Training Provider mark — and a MAEKO composter may contribute to Green Building Index assessment points, depending on the scheme and the assessor. See the impact page for product marks, testing and company credentials.
selected models
training provider
may contribute points
Eleven years of recognition are part of our record. Tell us about your site.
These awards and programme selections recognise MAEKO, its technology and its founder. To choose a machine for your kitchen, tell us what food waste you handle, roughly how much, and how it is collected now.