{"id":1612,"date":"2024-07-31T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2024-08-25T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:21:33","slug":"france-is-leading-the-way-in-fight-against-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/france-is-leading-the-way-in-fight-against-food-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"France is Leading the Way in Fight Against Food Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn\u2019t you like to eat free for a year?\u00a0 It\u2019s possible, and France is showing the way by banning supermarkets from throwing away unsold food and making big polluters financially responsible for the waste they create.\u00a0 France has even passed an anti-waste law that laid out dozens of objectives for waste prevention, including a national goal to eliminate single-use plastic by 2040.\u00a0 Cutting waste could yield a myriad of co-benefits from boosting biodiversity and improving food systems to mitigating climate change.\u00a0\u00a0 Success requires some extra efforts by us individual consumers, but there is no reason it couldn\u2019t work here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bringing France\u2019s Waste Prevention Plan to Life<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/environment\/2024\/05\/03\/france-zero-waste-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/environment\/2024\/05\/03\/france-zero-waste-plan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781532835070\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn\u2019t you like to eat free for a year?\u00a0 It\u2019s possible, and France is showing the way by banning supermarkets from throwing away unsold food and making big polluters financially responsible for the waste they create.\u00a0 France has even passed an anti-waste law that laid out dozens of objectives for waste prevention, including a national&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/france-is-leading-the-way-in-fight-against-food-waste\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;France is Leading the Way in Fight Against Food Waste&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,25,44,53,40,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-environment","category-food","category-global","category-politics","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}