French Food Waste Law Changing How Grocery Stores Approach Excess Food
Donating food that is about to pass it's sell by date has farther reaching effects than you would think.
Fresh foods for charities means healthier population. Less food in landfills means less greenhouse gasses. Donating rather than disposing means less expense for the grocer. Sounds like win/win to me, although I'm sure someone can find a downside.While the world wastes about one-third of the food it produces, and France wastes about 66 pounds per person per year, Americans waste some 200 billion pounds of food a year. That's enough to fill up the 90,000-seat Rose Bowl stadium every day, says Jonathan Bloom, the author of American Wasteland, a book about food waste in the United States. He says there are different ways of cutting back on food waste. For example, you can start from the end of the chain by banning food in landfills.