Supermarket Disposal Of Edible Food

EDM number 66 in 2015-16, proposed by Diane Abbott on 02/06/2015.
Categorised under the topics of Companies, Food and Waste management.

That this House notes that the UK throws away 15 million tonnes of food and drink every year and that half of this food and drink could have been consumed; further notes that if people stop wasting edible food, the environmental benefit would be the equivalent of taking one in four cars off the road; therefore calls on the Government to introduce legislation to ban supermarkets from throwing away food approaching its best-before dates and instead make it available to charities and food banks; and finally notes that such legislation has been successfully introduced in France and would have significant social and environmental benefits.

This motion has been signed by a total of 115 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.