Guillaume Garot
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 Guillaume Garot    (Politician) | ||||||||
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| Born | 29 May 1966 | |||||||
| Nationality | French | |||||||
| Alma mater | Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Sciences Po | |||||||
| Party | Socialist Party (France) | |||||||
French politician who proposed a bill to make it illegal for large French supermarkets to throw away or destroy food that had passed its sell by date. The bill passed unanimously, so large supermarkets are now required to give surplus food to charities for redistribution.
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Guillaume Garot is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who sat in the National Assembly from 2007 until 2012 and since 2014, representing the Mayenne department.[1] From 2012 until 2014, he was Junior Minister for the Food Industry under minister Stéphane Le Foll in the government of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
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In response to an estimated 7,000,000 tonnes of food wasted in France each year, Guillaume Garot proposed a bill to make it illegal for large French supermarkets to throw away or destroy food that had passed its sell by date. The bill passed unanimously, so large supermarkets are now required to give surplus food to charities for redistribution.[2]
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