Stores and restaurants should donate the food that is approaching the expiration date but is still safe to consume to orphanages, retirement homes, hospitals, and foundations, according to a project supported by a group of Romanian MPs.

The law plans to reduce food waste and help social NGOs, reports local Mediafax.

The goods whose expiration date is approaching are a “serious economic problem” for retailers, as most of these don’t have the capacity to reprocess the products. Currently they can only incinerate these goods.

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