Spain bans food waste by law

With a new law, the Spanish government has decided to encourage taking leftover food home from restaurants, shops, and catering establishments. In addition, it promotes and encourages the making of jams and similar products in order to reduce the quantities of food stocks that are nearing their expiration date.

All of this aims to reduce the amount of food that is wasted every year.

Starting this year, Spaniards are strictly fighting against food waste by law. According to the government's proposal, supermarkets, shops, and restaurants will be required to lower the prices of products whose expiration date is approaching.

In addition, they will be required to donate those products that will not be used.

Besides them, the same obligation applies to school restaurants, workers' and hospital canteens, if the food is not used in any way, such as for winter preserves or as products like jams and the like. The ultimate solution is turning it into animal feed, states TU magazine.

Bars and restaurants in Spain will be forced to offer their guests „dog bags” for free so they can take home uneaten food, in accordance with the new food waste law.

The law, which is expected to take effect starting January 1st of next year, will require companies to create plans for reducing food loss and waste right now.

Strict fines of up to several tens of thousands of euros are foreseen for companies that fail to comply with this law.

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