Recently, the Nanjing Market Supervision Bureau of Jiangsu Province found during an inspection of a hotel that hosts more meetings that 48 bottles of drinking water were left in the conference room at the end of a meeting, and 43 of those bottles were opened and discarded directly by the cleaning staff without being consumed.

According to China Quality News, on February 17, law enforcement officials came to a large hotel in Jiangning District, Nanjing City, which hosts more meetings to carry out law enforcement inspections.

In the meeting room on the 6th floor, a training session to kick off the year for an enterprise was underway, and law enforcement officers recorded during their tea break that the meeting **** issued 48 bottles of drinking water. At 12:30 a.m. after the end of the meeting, law enforcement officers returned to the scene, found that *** there are 43 bottles of drinking water opened and not consumed, cleaning personnel are cleaning to the trash can.

At the same time, law enforcement officers came to the hotel lobby bar, dining area for on-site inspection, did not find an anti-food waste signs, the hotel also did not take the initiative to consumers to prevent food waste tips to remind.

The above behavior of the parties violated the provisions of Article 7, paragraph 2 of the Anti-Food Waste Law, in accordance with the provisions of Article 28 of the Anti-Food Waste Law, law enforcement officers to the parties to make a warning of administrative punishment, ordered immediate rectification.

At the same time of issuing the notice of correction, the law enforcement officers on-site administrative guidance to the hotel:

Inform it that the Anti-Food Waste Law will come into force on April 29, 2021;

Inform it that food waste refers to the failure to reasonably utilize the food that can be safely eaten or consumed in accordance with its functional purpose, including abandonment, irrational use of food, and the reduction of the quantity or quality of food as a result of unreasonable use of food.

The company was told that it should take the initiative to remind consumers to prevent food waste by posting or placing anti-food waste signs in conspicuous places or by service staff to guide consumers to order according to their needs and in appropriate quantities.

The promulgation and implementation of the Anti-Food Waste Law has taken the first step in our country's drive to solve the problem of food waste, but how to make it really take root and realize the good law and good governance, not only need to combine different subjects, different scenarios of classified research, but also need to promote the implementation of the whole society.

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