Make it a criminal offence for supermarkets to throw away or destroy unsold food

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What the petition asks

The House of Lords conducted an inquiry into the amount of food wasted in EU and from that inquiry, it emerged that a staggering 200m tonnes of food is wasted by Asda, Co-operative Food, M&S, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose.

Let us make it a criminal offence to waste food.

Following a report found here http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/eu-sub-com-d/food-waste-prevention/154.pdf the UK wastes a shocking amount of food per year. Let us make it a criminal offence for supermarkets to dispose of food just because it is not cosmetically perfect.

Instead of disposing of it, they should look to donate it to food banks and charities who will help feed the homeless and hungry.

Timeline

17 Mar 2016	Petition opened for signatures
17 Sep 2016	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 201

Status Closed

Opened 17 Mar 2016

Closed 17 Sep 2016

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