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RE: Free the Food #34 ✔ | I LOVE Dumpster Diving!^^ [2018-03-04]
Didnt France forbids food waste by supermarkets ??
But giving leftover food to charity is no longer just an act of goodwill. It's a requirement under a 2016 law that bans grocery stores from throwing away edible food.
This is at the same time True ... and false!
Supermarkets should donate their wasted food... but only to non-profit organizations that have all the requirement to manipulate and transport food. This includes Approval from the official institutions, a truck with a freezer (with a lot of norms, need to be approved), a local (that ALSO need to be approved by the authorities ... ), etc ... )
This requires a HUGE financial investment for any local association... so only the "big" ones could pick-up wasted food.
So, yeah, it's forbidden to waste food IF an organization with all the requirements have made an official request to the supermarket.
So 99% of the food is still wasted ... :(
Thanks for explainig the issues with this law in France.
Our project is trying to facilitate an alternative to save food in a decentralized way, instead of relying on "BIG" charity organisations that do not really change anything long term but instead preserve the status quo.
We hope that Steem/Steemit can help us reach a broader community so we all can start fixing this problem from a grass roots level.
I wish you the best! I really appreciate those kind of projects! Keep up the good work
This is, for example, what a group on Facebook (called Les Gars'pilleurs) found into the garbage of a supermarket in France:
Source: https://www.facebook.com/pg/lesgarspilleurs/photos/?ref=page_internal
This law is supposed to be place in every country. I think I agree with you in the sense that in some countries,people sell such food stuffs till the last day of expiration and then throw away because they think they bought them with their money. That is really inhuman.