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EU backs tough legislation to slash food waste and rein in 'fast fashion'

An employee throws food scraps into a bio-waste bin outside a restaurant in Paris, on 17 November 2021. © AFP / ERIC PIERMONT

Binding targets for curbing food waste and fresh obligations for the textile industry are at the heart of a new EU drive to cut disgarded goods and protect the planet.

EU lawmakers have given the final go-ahead to a sweeping new law designed to cut back Europe’s towering piles of wasted food and rein in the environmental footprint of fast fashion.

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