To cut the 88 million tonnes of edible food wasted annually in the EU by half by 2030, the European Parliament’s environment committee, meeting in Brussels on Tuesday 11 April, devised a recipe which it hopes will be followed.
Among the ingredients of this recipe, set out in a draft resolution that was adopted unanimously, are: a clear definition of food waste, a common method for measuring it, a legally binding 50% reduction target by 2030 and an objective for member states of at least a...