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Ban food waste for supermarkets and restaurants and donate the food instead.

Submitted on Thursday 7th March 2019

Rejected on Tuesday 12th March 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Ban food waste for supermarkets and restaurants and donate the food instead.

Petition Details

In France, grocery stores and supermarkets must donate unsold food to charity, but the UK wastes food from supermarkets and restaurants when hundreds of thousands cannot afford it. Food is wasted before it reaches its best before date when the product has not spoiled but surpassed its peak quality.

Additional Information

Globally by 2030, 2.1 billion tonnes of food will annually either be lost or thrown away. This is equivalent to 66 tonnes of food per second. The only way we can stop this is by taking action.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/20/food-waste-alarming-rise-will-see-66-tonnes-thrown-away-every-second

Regulations in France:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/02/09/french-supermarkets-must-now-donate-unsold-food-charity/80076632/


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

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