Following a law passed in French parliament which prohibits supermarkets from dumping unsold food, France’s minister for ecology, sustainable development and the environment, Ségolène Royal, will meet with supermarket chain heads lsa.fr reports.
She will call a meeting with the leaders of large-scale food distribution in France with the hope of contractually binding the multinationals to fight food waste in more specific and comprehensive ways. This will happen, she says, “within ten days.”
It is expected that leading figures of France’s largest supermarket chains will argue that they have already created significant numbers of channels which prelude the dumping of unsold yet edible food.
The former leader of France’s Parti Socialiste will pressure the companies into making further, legally binding promises to fight the problem of wasted food, LSA says.
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