“There is still work to do,” said the deputy at the origin of the anti-Gaspi law

Give new impetus to the fight against food waste. This is the goal of the States General Thursday March 13 in the National Assembly, and organized by the Socialist MP of Mayenne, Guillaume Garot, author in 2016 of 2016 of The first law against waste. The results show that there has since been improvements, but that there is still a lot of work.

Each year, each Frenchman throws 24 kilos of still edible food. It was five kilos less than nine years ago, when Guillaume Garot brought the law against food waste. “So we must be able to continue to move forward on this to prevent us from being always in an overconsumption society where we would come to produce to throw, which is still the height of the absurd”he pleads.

The deputy recognizes that his text is poorly applied. For example, it is supposed to prohibit the destruction of unsold still consumables, but a recent commerso survey, a company specializing in anti-waste, shows that a third of supermarkets destroyed unsold food several times a week. The socialist deputy therefore wishes to improve the law. “On the controls that must be operated on what large surfaces throw, on what is given before that to associations, on the quality of these gifts, we still have work to do, without bad pun”he details.

With a new data to take into account, still according to the survey, more than four out of ten companies want to reduce their investments in favor of the fight against waste to deal with the tense economic context.