2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Every year, nearly 1/3 of the food produced worldwide is thrown away. The worst on this indicator is the United States, where about 60 tons of food is dumped every year.
In order to avoid this huge waste in the face of widespread famine in the Third World, the French authorities have introduced new legislation that prohibits shops from deliberately ruining food.
Believe it or not, in order to prevent homeless people wandering around landfills from finding food that is still edible, some stores purposefully flood their expired food with bleach.
It is scandalous to see bleach being poured into the bins in front of supermarkets, where food that is still edible is being thrown away, said Guillaume Garrot, vice-president of the French Socialist Party and author of the law.
Under the new legal norm, adopted almost unanimously by all members of the French National Assembly, all supermarkets with an area of more than 16 square meters or more are obliged to donate stale food to charity, animal feed or compost.
Also, absolutely all retail outlets are strictly forbidden to destroy food on any occasion.
Those store managers who do not comply with the new regulations as of July 2016 will face fines of up to $ 75,000 or two years in prison.
The newly introduced measure aims to reduce food waste by 50 percent by 2025.
In the last year, France has launched a series of reforms aimed at sustainable change that will improve the state of the environment and ensure a healthier future for its citizens.
The French parliament recently passed another non-standard decree, which obliges every homeowner to install solar panels or to cover their roofs with oxygen-producing plants.
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