Stealing food from supermarket dustbins.

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CPS say there is 'significant public interest' in prosecuting 3 men who stole about £30 worth of discarded food. I'm struggling to see what this 'public interest' is - surely some kind of caution (and the supermarket improving their security) is a more sensible approach to take.




"Three charged with stealing food from skip behind Iceland supermarket"

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/thr...

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An interesting new scheme in France.

French supermarkets banned from throwing away and spoiling unsold food

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Supermarkets in France have been banned from throwing away or spoiling unsold food by law.

The stores are now required to donate unwanted food to charities and food banks.

To stop foragers, some supermarkets have poured bleach over the discarded food or storing binned food in locked warehouses.

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Mr Derambarsh is now looking to get an EU-wide law banning supermarket food waste.

He said: "The next step is to ask the president, François Hollande, to put pressure on Jean-Claude Juncker and to extend this law to the whole of the EU.