Petition · past parliament
Introduce legislation barring stores from spoiling and throwing away food
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
On 3rd February 2016 France introduced legislation obliging supermarkets to give close-to-date food to charities and associations if asked to do so. Equally, they banned the practice of deliberately spoiling food, preventing people recovering comestible food from supermarket bins.
Figures in January this year showed we, as a nation, waste £13bn worth of food a year. Equally, as a result of changes to benefits, the Trussell Trust has reported a 13% increase in emergency food supplies provisions - according to their website 586,907 three day emergency food supplies were given to people in crisis in first half of this year, a 13% increase on the same period last year – 208,956 of those meals were for children. We cannot continue wasting good food while children go hungry
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 16 Nov 2017 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 21 Nov 2017 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
21 Nov 2017
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.