France ban on supermarket food waste

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The lower house in France has unanimously voted in favour of an amendment to the Energy Transition Law concerning food waste, including measures to ban supermarkets from binning or rendering unusable any food that has been removed from the shelves and is still usable.

The measure aims to prevent the disposal of food products. Each supermarket throws away between 20kg to 40kg of edible items per day…read on

[FRENCHENTRÉE • MAY 2015]