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The three Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle – What can you do? reduce reuse recycle buy loose goods (fruit and vegetables) do not use packaging farmer’s market use fabric bags or a wicker basket reuse plastic bags paper, cardboard, glass and plastic bottles, cans, plastic bags, batteries Read this newspaper article. Then decide whether the statements are true or false. French law forbids food waste by supermarkets In 2016 France has become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food, forcing them instead to donate it to charities and food banks. Under a law passed unanimously by the French senate, large shops will no longer bin good quality food approaching its best-before date. Charities will be able to give out millions more free meals each year to people struggling to afford to eat. Supermarkets will also be barred from deliberately spoiling food in order to stop it being eaten by people foraging in stores’ bins. In recent years, growing numbers of families, students, unemployed and homeless people in France have been foraging in supermarket bins at night to feed themselves. People have been finding edible products thrown out just as their best-before dates approached. Some supermarkets doused binned food in bleach, reportedly to prevent food poisoning from items taken from bins. Other super- markets deliberately binned food in locked warehouses for collec- tion by refuse trucks. Now bosses of supermarkets with 400 m 2 or more will have to sign donation contracts with charities or face a penalty of €3,750. (Source: www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/french-law-forbids-food-waste-by-supermarkets) true false Supermarkets in France must give their unsold food to charities and food banks. Only one person in the French senate wanted this law passed. Supermarkets are not allowed to damage the food in the bins anymore. All kinds of people look for food in the supermarket bins at night. Supermarkets throw the food away after the sell-by date has passed. In the past supermarkets were allowed to ruin the food in the bins or lock the bins away. Every supermarket in France will have to either sign a donation contract or pay a fine. 03 A2 04 A2–B1 Person giving out food at a food bank Word bank ban verbieten donate spenden charities Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen food banks Essensausgabe law Gesetz unanimously einstimmig bin wegwerfen best-before date Ablaufdatum barred untersagt sein deliberately absichtlich spoil verderben foraging im Müll nach Essen suchen edible essbar douse in bleach mit Bleichmittel übergießen ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ 109 Don’t mess with our world! It’s the only one we have! 20 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eige ntum des Verlags öbv