France was the first country to ban supermarkets from throwing away unused food by law, implemented in 2015. The objective was to reduce food waste and increase social awareness, which has been enhanced by teaching students, involving companies by making them provide a report on food sustainability and the provision of 'doggie-bags' by restaurants.
Reducing food waste would not only help to feed hungry people and avoid throwing away food that is produced, but also to reduce the greenhouse emissions created with the production of food (methane emissions in landfills).
As a result of its efforts, France has become one of the European leaders in preventing food waste and earned top ranking in the 2017 Food Sustainability Index. However, other countries have a more successful history on preventing food waste such as Britain or Denmark. This law implemented in France is quite recent and only 11% of France's 7.1 million metric tons of food waste comes from supermarkets. Further successful results need to come, still none of the other countries have a similar law in place.
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