French supermarkets banned from throwing away

[FrostedFlake]

Good job France ! Thank god and let's pray every country will do the same.. such a shame to let people die just to make money .. 

 

And i would say the same about shoe and clothe store , send it somewhere instead of scrapping it because it's not sold .. Weird world we are living in.. 

[J o N]

I work at the Head Office of a big supermarket over here in the UK (Tesco) and we're trailing doing a similar thing in about 200 shops; there's an app the stores can use to contact any local charities, homeless shelters or food banks; and if any of them want to use the food that's about to go off they can either arrange to pick it up or get it delivered directly to them.

 

The way supermarkets work means there's always going to be waste on fresh food, but its great that people are getting serious about tackling it - although the real problem with food waste is at home; something like 50% of food that's thrown away (in the UK at least) is from people buying stuff and then throwing it away unused -  only a relatively small percentage of waste comes from the supermarket itself (something like 5%!) , with the rest comes from Suppliers, Producers and the supply chain, and then customers at home.

 

 

http://goo.gl/QcHRz2

 

Told you so!