Paris (AFP)
Signs defended Wednesday after a "punch" operation aimed at the bins of two Parisian stores where remains of food still good for consumption were found, while we mark the national day of fight against waste.
"Why are we throwing food in the trash, food that is consumable?", Said Tuesday during this operation a homeless Christian, to AFP-TV, showing that with what he had recovered , it could have been "a small salad as a starter, with shrimp, and a yogurt for dessert".
At his side, Arash Derambarsh, councilor of Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), made note by bailiff the contents of bins found in front of a Franprix and a Carrefour Bio of the capital, before announcing that he would file a complaint for non-compliance with the anti-food waste law, in force since February 2016.
"The big distribution must apply the law: all the signs which will do it will be our allies, all those which refuse to do it will be our adversaries and we will make them bend", launched the elected, besides lawyer.
Questioned by AFP, Bertrand Swiderski, director of sustainable development at Carrefour, said that each year the group donated several tons of food to the associations, in accordance with the law: "In 2018, these donations represented France 93 million meal equivalents ".
But, he explained, "there are three types of food that can not be given as unfit for consumption: what has fallen to the ground, what is egg-based and finally what '+' are called 'temperature rises', ie when, for example, a customer rests in the store a product that he does not want to buy anymore.
This is the typical case of shrimp, victims of the break of the cold chain, or pastries: "customers + indelicate +, that is to say people who eat a croissant in a bag of six and rest ".
The distributor also announced Wednesday that, given the fact that "dates of minimum durability (MDD), or recommended dates, are the cause of 20% of food waste homes because of their misunderstanding," he will propose consumers in 2020 outdated products, sold at reduced prices, to limit waste.
For its part, Franprix (Casino Group), explains having set up an application, Phénix, through which its customers buy cheap unsold food: deployed in 260 stores, it has "saved" 30 tons of products since its launch.
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