Is France’s supermarket waste law heading for Europe?

[maureenho]

Is France’s supermarket waste law heading for Europe?
By Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris

Plans to introduce a French law that bans supermarkets from destroying unsold food and obliges them to give it to charity is irritating retailers who say they already make a big effort to fight waste.

Under the law, stores of more than 400 sq m would have until July 2016 to sign contracts with charities or food banks, and to start giving them unsold produce.

It follows a media campaign run by a young centre-right politician, Arash Derambarsh, who says he was outraged by the sight of homeless people last winter scrambling in supermarket bins.

A local councillor in the Paris suburb of Courbevoie, Derambarsh began his campaign by collecting the unsold food and handing it out to the needy. He then launched an online petition, which helped create momentum for the new law.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33907737

[annie]

That is a good thing, M&S in towns that have hospices , have done this for years

[JaneJ]

About time! I have always been boggled why this isn't the case!