European Lawmakers Want to Stem ‘Immoral and Unsustainable’ Food Waste

The European Union and its member countries should do more to reduce the amount of food wasted in the bloc, according to a nonbinding resolution adopted by European Parliament lawmakers May 16.

Biljana Borzan, a Croatian center-left member of the European Parliament who drafted the resolution, said the EU wastes about 88 million metric tons of food per year, which was “immoral and unsustainable.” The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization estimated in 2011 that global food waste accounted for 4.4 gigatons of greenhouse-gas emissions annually—an amount trailing only overall U.S. and China emissions.

Measures could include EU-wide food ...