The French state voted unanimously to ban supermarkets from throwing away or spoiling unsold food on Wednesday.
Stores are now required to donate unwanted food to charities and food banks. Shockingly, some supermarkets have been pouring bleach over thrown away food to stop foragers.
The new law applies to any supermarket with an area of 400 square metres or larger.
Jaques Bailet from Banques Alimentaries, a network of Food banks, told The Independent, “The next step is to ask the president, François Hollande, to put pressure on Jean-Claude Juncker and to extend this law to the whole of the EU.
“This battle is only just beginning. We now have to fight food waste in restaurants, bakeries, school canteens and company canteens.”
Big up France!