Italy passes law to encourage all supermarkets to give unsold food to needy...

'The food currently wasted in Europe could feed 200 million people,' 

The Italian government has overwhelmingly backed a new set of laws aimed at cutting down the vast amounts of food wasted in the country each year.

A bill passed by 181 Senators will encourage families to use "doggy bags" to take home unfinished food after eating out and removes hurdles for farmers and supermarkets seeking to donate food to charity.

The goal to cut the five million tonnes of food wasted every year by at least one million tonnes was only opposed by two Senators and abstained from by one when put to a vote in Italy's upper house on 2 August.

Ministers have said that food waste is costing Italy's business and households more than €12 billion (£10 billion) a year, or about 1 per cent of GDP. Full story...

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