This petition was submitted during the 2017–2019 Conservative government
Rejected petition Introduce legislation barring stores from spoiling and throwing away food
On 3rd February 2016 France introduced legislation obliging supermarkets to give close-to-date food to charities and associations if asked to do so. Equally, they banned the practice of deliberately spoiling food, preventing people recovering comestible food from supermarket bins.
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Figures in January this year showed we, as a nation, waste £13bn worth of food a year. Equally, as a result of changes to benefits, the Trussell Trust has reported a 13% increase in emergency food supplies provisions - according to their website 586,907 three day emergency food supplies were given to people in crisis in first half of this year, a 13% increase on the same period last year – 208,956 of those meals were for children. We cannot continue wasting good food while children go hungry
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