explained in percentages: https://www.eurofoodbank.eu/poverty-waste/food-waste

 French law: “Leftover food” needs to go to food banks à European Wide law?

Bioenergy: What is bioenergy? How is it used and made? Potential problems? http://www.eesi.org/topics/bioenergy-biofuels-biomass/description

 Recycling: 

Differences in different countries (filter out EU)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4620041.stm 

 Press release: Sep 16, 2016 -  Recycling Europe

http://www.zerowasteeurope.eu/category/waste/recycling/ 

 Forty percent of the United States’ food supply is never consumed. From virtually any angle, the scale of food waste is astonishing. According to conservative estimates, 160 billion pounds per year are jettisoned during harvest, processing, distribution, and consumption. In 2008 Americans wasted $4.1 billion worth of tomatoes alone—and with them, the approximately 8.9 million hours of labor and 15 billion gallons of water that went into producing them. While the market value of America’s food waste ($197.7 billion) is shocking, its potential “value” to meet human needs is even more striking. By one calculation, Americans dispose of enough calories of edible food each year to bring the diets of every undernourished person in the world up to an appropriate level. Yet estimates suggest that less than 10 percent of grocery stores’ edible excess gets donated. Still smaller quantities are donated at other points in the food chain. Almost all the rest makes its way to landfills, where it spews methane, a potent greenhouse gas that accelerates climate change.

The Independent: The hungry ‘should not be punished’ for stealing small amounts of food
An opinion piece that statistics show the ranks of Italy's poor grow by 615 people daily and that it was unthinkable that the law should not take note of reality. The ruling is "right and pertinent," Italiaglobale.it wrote. The decision is rooted in a concept that "informed the Western world for centuries — it is called humanity,"

Reuters: Global standard to measure food waste aims to put more on plates
Around one third of all food, by weight, is spoiled or thrown away worldwide as it moves from where it is produced to where it is eaten, costing globally up to $940 billion per year, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated.

The standard is the first set of international definitions and reporting requirements for businesses, governments and other organizations to measure and manage food loss and waste, with the aim of reducing it, its creators said. 
The effort hopes to channel more food to the roughly 800 million people who are undernourished around the world, and cut emissions from the production of uneaten food, which account for about 8 percent of the total contributing to climate change.