France recently made it illegal for grocery stores to dump or destroy good food. Instead of letting 1 in 8 Americans go hungry, maybe we should do this too.
An estimated 40 percent of the food produced in the United States is wasted every year, around 150,000 tons.
Around 10 percent of that is thrown out by grocery stores just before it reaches its expiration or “best before” date.
Meanwhile, 1 in 8 Americans struggles with hunger.
France has put an end to the waste, by making it illegal for grocery stores to throw out or destroy unsold food, and now the European Union may consider a similar continent-wide law, as the European Parliament just set a goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030.
Charities in France are now able to give out millions more free meals each year to people struggling to afford to eat.