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Ugly fruits and vegetables have often been tossed aside as unfit for supermarket shelves. To fight food waste, a new store in Copenhagen stocks its shelves with food that is past its official expiration date or has aesthetic imperfections or damaged packaging. Jim Wilson/The New York Times

This is an article from Turning Points, a magazine that explores what critical moments from this year might mean for the year ahead.

Turning Point: France becomes the first country to outlaw food waste.

Not long ago, just before boarding a trans-Atlantic flight, I overheard a woman tell her friend that she had packed her own water bottle because she disliked wasting all the plastic bottles given out on planes. A few minutes later she was on the phone with another friend, explaining that she was on her way to Europe for the weekend to shop and relax.

Which got me thinking about food waste.…  Seguir leyendo »