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Italy Is Investing in Chic Takeout Bags to Make Leftovers Cool

Ciao, food waste. In Italy, lawmakers are encouraging diners to embrace takeout bags so the country throws out less food.

The problem: Wasting food costs Italy the equivalent of $14 billion a year, the New York Times reported. In Italy, each person chucks roughly 176 pounds of food a year. In the U.S., $29 billion worth of food is wasted each year because people get confused by sell-by dates, Mic previously reported.

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Source: https://mic.com/articles/

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