A few month ago, France took action against food waste by forcing supermarkets to donate their food to charity, and the first results are already visible.
The French Environment and Energy Management Agency, ADEME, recently teamed up with five supermarket chains to experiment in ten stores. ADEME found that, if adopted across the country, the measures would save 300,000 tonnes of food per year and over 700 million euros. The agency also calculated that a supermarket's grocery sales would increase by an average of 0.9 percent.
