The first domestic local regulation against dining waste was issued by Hebei Province.

According to People's Daily, on September 22, 2020, the 19th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress of Hebei Province considered and passed regulations on practicing economy and opposing catering waste, which will be implemented from November 1, 2020 onwards. This is the country's first provincial local regulations focusing exclusively on the management of catering waste.

According to the regulations, radio, television, network audio and video service providers are prohibited from producing, transmitting and disseminating wasteful behaviors such as fake eating and vomiting, eating in large quantities, exaggerated hunting and overeating. Violators, by the radio and television, culture and tourism, Internet and other relevant departments to give a warning, ordered to correct; the circumstances are serious, according to the law, impose a fine, and can be ordered to suspend the relevant business.

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Promoting social self-discipline, spontaneous practice of conservation actions, the provisions of more emphasis on daily habit formation:

One is to publicize the awareness of saving through family education, school education, encouraging families to cultivate their children to save food, against waste awareness, and to integrate thrift and saving into all aspects of daily life; the school will save the education into the classroom teaching, to carry out thematic education and experiential activities, the practice of saving, against food and beverage waste performance into the teacher morality, students' comprehensive quality and cafeteria evaluation system.

The second is to promote through the industry rules and regulations, requiring the development of village rules and regulations, residents' conventions, to promote the change of customs; the development and improvement of the citizens' convention, the employee code, student code, member of the charter, the owners of the convention and other self-regulatory norms and occupational norms, catering savings into which the content of vigorously create a saving in the whole community for the honor of the waste of the social atmosphere is shameful.

China Youth Net - Hebei introduces the first provincial-level local regulations to control catering waste