Beijing Municipal People's Congress Social Construction Committee Chairman Cong Luo Luo said, diligence and thrift is the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, but also an important part of the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. Legislation against food waste is of great significance to safeguard national food security, promote sustainable economic and social development, and establish a new trend of social civilization.

Beijing vigorously rectify the wind of waste, food and beverage waste behavior has been curbed to a certain extent. However, to stop the catering waste of influencing factors, such as the way of consumption concept, business management level, uncivilized consumption practices, wastefulness of the problem still exists to varying degrees, become a persistent problem, there is an urgent need to regulate the system through the legislative system, to make targeted institutional arrangements.

It is reported that the draft development process, 10,818 city, district, townships and townships of the three levels of the National People's Congress to participate in the questionnaire survey, the online completion of the questionnaire more than 680,000 people. Participants generally believe that it is necessary to stop food and beverage wasteful behavior through legislation, while receiving more than 5,000 legislative proposals.

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Any unit of individuals have the right to dissuade stopping food waste

The draft regulations govern businesses such as take-outs and buffets.

Which requires network food service platforms, network food service operators should be a prominent way to prompt consumers to order according to need, the right amount of food, in the meal browsing page labeling meal portion, specifications, the number of people recommended to dine and other information, to promote the small size of the meal, optional packages. Takeaway delivery should use standardized meal boxes, meal bags and heat preservation, clean delivery containers.

Encouraging network food service platforms to use information technology to analyze catering consumption demand, and provide information technology services for networked food service operators to develop improved meals, prepare meals on demand, and prevent and reduce waste.

Self-service operators should establish a meal preparation assessment, meal inspection system, according to the number of meals reasonably arranged table, equipped with different specifications of food and beverage utensils, to guide the consumer a small number of times to pick up the meal; can be taken in advance agreed upon ways to wasteful consumers to charge the appropriate fees.

The draft provisions clearly, any unit or individual has the right to discourage, stop food waste behavior, found that food production and operation in violation of the provisions of the Citizen Service Hotline or the relevant departments to report. Received the report of the relevant departments shall promptly deal with the law.

Overseas network-Beijing legislation against food waste, inducing over-ordering up to proposed fine of 10,000 yuan