The internet was in a frenzy when France recently passed legislation making it illegal for stores to purposely waste discarded food. As many pointed out in the comments section of True Activist's coverage, such an intelligent plan deserves to go global – and now it just might!

Arash Derambarsh, the local councillor who kick-started the fight against food waste in his own Paris suburb, has grand ambitions to convince more countries to follow France's lead.

Derambarsh believes it is "scandalous and absurd" that food is wasted and in some cases deliberately spoiled while the homeless, poor, and unemployed go hungry.

And who can disagree? At present, the world wastes 1/3 of its food supply – and such a statistic is far from acceptable.