Nineteen times, somebody thought this was worth reporting.
Nineteen stories about MAEKO, from eleven newspapers and magazines, in three languages, between 2014 and 2025. Every page is here in full. Two of the nineteen are about the founder. Pillars featured Chelsea Chee in 2015, and Malaysia SME profiled her the same year.
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papers and magazines that ran it
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languages they wrote in — English, Bahasa Malaysia, 中文
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Nineteen stories. Where the reporters went.
Reporters went to a wet market in Shah Alam, a central market
in Sibu, a school in Kajang and a Ramadan bazaar in Petaling Jaya. They wrote
what they found there.
Four of the nineteen, and four of the places a reporter went to.
In the press
From the press to your site.
The coverage includes MAEKO’s machines, installations and founders. Tell us about your own site and food-waste collection; we can help you choose the next step.
Trade halls and launches, not press cuttings. The pages further down are what
reporters wrote; this is where you could have walked up and watched a machine run.
July 2026
Food & Drinks Malaysia by SIAL
Live demonstrations of a MAEKO composter on the stand. YB Datuk Chan Foong Hin, Deputy Minister
of Agriculture and Food Security, visited during the show.
July 2026
ScaleX launch
MAEKO attended the launch, alongside other Malaysian-made products and homegrown
businesses shown under one roof.
May 2026
International Wellness Expo & Health Summit Asia
A live composter demonstration under the Future Food, Wellness and Biotech
pavilion.
In print
Eleven publications. Eleven years.
A reporter came out, looked at the machine, and wrote it up. Click any
story to read the full page.
English
theSunThe StarThe Star OnlineThe Edge MalaysiaThe Edge Financial DailyPillarsMalaysia SME
Bahasa Malaysia
Sinar HarianHarian MetroBerita Harian
中文
Sin Chew Daily 星洲日報
Eleven publications, nineteen stories, 2014 to 2025. We have been building these machines in Malaysia since 2011 — three years before the first of these pages was printed.
theSun · 17 March 2025
‘Project runs throughout Ramadan to help vendors manage waste responsibly’
“From March 2 to March 10, a total of 625.4kg of food waste was collected, including 440.8kg from Kelana Jaya and 75.6kg from Kota Damansara, resulting in the production of 125.08kg of compost, using a Maeko composting machine.”
“Now, we do modern food composting using a machine where we use compost as fertilisers for our gardens and throughout the neighbourhood.”— N.K. Leong, chairman, SS20 Central Residents Association — The Star, 3 July 2018
“Innovative Malaysian companies like MAEKO are offering affordable modular solutions to the problem of food waste to help meet the sustainable goal of responsible consumption and production.”— Prof. Leong Choon Heng, The Edge Malaysia, 22 May 2017
“自從該中心啟用後，沙亞南第6區現代化巴剎的垃圾量也從10月份的63.3噸降至11月份的58.5噸，一共少了4.8噸的垃圾，證明有關中心奏效。”— Datuk Ahmad Zaharin Mohd Saad, Mayor of Shah Alam — Sin Chew Daily, 11 December 2015
Malaysia SME named “the co-founders of Mentari Alam Sdn Bhd
Chelsea Chee and Mae Ooi.” Pillars featured her as MAEKO’s founder and CEO. Both publications interviewed her.
Pillars — feature · 19 September – 2 October 2015
Hitting a birdie with green tech
“Founder and CEO Chelsea Chee paints us a picture of possibilities, into an eco-friendly world.”
“It is our vision to help preserve Mother Earth. We don’t want our children to live in landfills.”
— Chelsea Chee, Pillars, September 2015
Malaysia SME · 16–29 May 2015
Composting for future generations
“Innovative duo pioneers innovation in the hope of better food waste management.”
“When we started out, we were totally by ourselves, as all the banks and investors that we went to turned us down. They said that we were too ambitious and that such an initiative would never take off in Malaysia.”
The Edge Financial Daily, in October 2014, already quotes her as chief executive officer. In 2016 Chelsea Chee won the BEST Women LED
Entrepreneur Award from the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme for SMEs in
Malaysia — that one is on the awards page.
2020The Star OnlineSunway Group’s zero food wastage programme
