法国拟立法要求超市捐献邻近过期食品

    食品伙伴网讯   据法国媒体报道，为减少食品浪费现象，日前法国国会议员提出一项议案，要求那些拥有1,000平米以上规模的超市，向慈善机构捐献出邻近过期的食品。

    这项举措可以保证那些虽临近保质期，但仍然健康和新鲜的待下架食品，能够首先被考虑捐献给慈善机构，救助那些需要帮助的人们。这些议员们认为，超市拥有大量的食品库存和相应的管理系统，要比个人更有能力捐献。

    据报道，法国的每个家庭，平均每年会扔掉20公斤的食物，其中有7公斤是尚未开过包就被丢弃。

    部分原文报道如下：

    A typical French supermarket throws away some 200 tonnes of food every year, but a new piece of legislation aims to make that sort of waste illegal.

    Sixty-three elected officials from across party lines filed a bill on Wednesday that would force so-called “hypermarkets” of 1,000 square metres or more to donate out of date food to charity instead of tossing it.

    “With logistical resources and a stockpile of products, supermarkets can more easily make donations than individuals,” signatory and National Assembly member Jean-Pierre Decool of the conservative UMP party told French daily Le Monde. “A more systematic, even mandatory, approach should be added to this process by changing the legislation currently in force.”

    Though households are responsible for most of the food wasted in the European Union, accounting for some 42 percent of what is thrown away, five percent of the waste still happens at big supermarket stores.

    原文链接：<http://www.thelocal.fr/20140801/bill-would-force-french-markets-to-donate-food>