Japan may allow restaurant customers to take home leftovers
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Japan is mulling letting restaurant customers take leftovers home in a bid to reduce food wastage, according to draft guidelines from the country’s health ministry. Now, though, the health ministry wants people to take leftovers home but advises skipping raw food like sashimi and using clean chopsticks for transferring it to containers. open image in gallery Chief Akifumi Sakagami makes a sushi set at Sushi Ginza Onodera restaurant in Tokyo The guidelines require eateries to provide disinfectant or disposable gloves to customers if necessary and ensure that containers used to take away leftover food are clean. open image in gallery Yumiko Ukon poses with ‘onigiri’ she made at her Onigiri Bongo restaurant in Tokyo Food wastage is a critical issue in Japan which recorded an estimated 4.72 million tonnes of food loss in 2022.
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