In China, where leftover food at restaurants is a problem, a law has been passed that includes allowing customers who over-ordered food to be charged for the disposal of leftover food. ..
China's state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported that the "Anti-Food Waste Law" prohibiting the waste of food was passed at the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress held until the 29th.
The law allows customers who over-order food at restaurants to be charged for the disposal of leftover food, and it is best for restaurants to order large quantities of food. It is said that it will impose a fine of 10,000 yuan and 160,000 yen in Japanese yen.
In addition, it prohibits the distribution of videos boasting gluttony, which is gaining popularity on video sharing sites in China, and imposes fines of up to 1.6 million yen in Japanese yen on violating businesses.
In general China to eat and especially the cooking of the platter, they become the leftovers of a problem in such as restaurants, Xi Jinping Jintao also, last year in August, asking not to waste food and drink to the public instruction Was out.
Because China relies agricultural products such as soybean on imports from such as the United States, seen as Xi Jinping leadership is not to increase the sense of crisis to food security, further strengthen the efforts to eliminate the leftovers by this legislation I will.