Last week the French national assembly voted to ban French supermarkets from throwing away edible food. Now, the politician spearheading the movement to stop food waste in France wants other countries to follow suit.
Arash Derambarsh, a councilor in northwest Paris, told the Guardian that he hopes to spark a revolution in which the global population stops throwing away a third of the food it produces, and starts using it to feed the hungry.
He recalled what it was like to go hungry as a struggling student in Paris, he said. His campaign began with saving and distributing food from a local supermarket, and grew into a petition with over 200,000 signatures—and then the change in French law.
He now wants to bring the issue to the attention of the G20 economic summit, to be held in Turkey in November, and the COP21 environment conference in Paris in December, he told the paper.
Here are some statistics he’ll likely cite:
