Is it illegal in your country to throw the food away? (lemy.nl)

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Apparently in France it is. Is there any other country that has this type of law implemented? Mandatory donations or something of the sort?

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Where is “here”?

[-] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

The southeastern U.S.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I hadn’t heard of that. I do know the US passed a law allowing restaurants to donate unused food at the end of the day without fear of lawsuits.

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/08/13/good-samaritan-act-provides-liability-protection-food-donations

Also there’s a new app where restaurants can sell food at the end of the day at a discount rather than throwing it away called “too good to go”.

I’m lucky to live in a southern city where we have citywide composting as well. I wish more places would do that. It’s a waste to simply landfill food scraps when you could funnel it all to the farming industry as fertilizer.

[-] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's great (re the citywide composting)! Companies cite fear of a lawsuit as an excuse not to donate food. Of course the reality is that they're just protecting profits, no one has ever been sued from donating food as far as I know, and as you mention there is a law specifically prohibiting doing so.

I've heard of many places where it's illegal to give food out to people.

Where I live there is no composting, the city barely recycles even.

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