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Cutting food waste saves money for French supermarkets
Published Sun, Nov 20, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Paris
CUTTING food waste is an appealing social goal, but experiments in France found that measures to cut the amount of food being thrown out also saved supermarkets money.
Like a number of other countries, France has recently adopted legislation that forces supermarkets to donate to charities food that is unwanted or past its sell-by date but still edible.
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