The State Administration for Market Regulation and the Ministry of Commerce recently jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Giving Play to the Leading Role of Online Catering Platforms to Effectively Prevent the Waste of Takeaway Food" to implement laws and regulations such as the Anti-Food Waste Law, give full play to the leading role of platform companies, and strengthen the platform Promote the civilized consumption awareness of domestic merchants and consumers, form a good social trend of practicing strict economy and opposing waste, and promote the standardized and healthy development of the online catering industry.
The guiding opinions are clear, and guide the platform to further optimize the agreement rules, improve the mechanism of order collection and full reduction, implement the standards of takeaway food, and standardize the platform's takeaway delivery service. Strengthen the compliance guidelines for merchants on the platform, encourage the platform to establish anti-waste files for merchants, guide merchants to set up special areas for small meals, use green packaging, and strengthen positive guidance for merchants through prominent position display on the homepage and traffic support.
The guidance pointed out that consumers should be encouraged to save money, guide the platform to further optimize the supply structure of food products, optimize the display of food product information, actively promote small portions of food products, strengthen the reminder of civilized ordering throughout the process, and establish and improve the incentive mechanism for consumers to save money . Increase anti-food waste publicity and advocacy, encourage platforms to strengthen the promotion and interpretation of policies and regulations to prevent take-out food waste, launch anti-food waste online learning courses, and print anti-food waste slogans through various media to publicize and popularize food waste prevention knowledge.
The guidance emphasizes that market supervision departments and commercial authorities at all levels should strengthen system supply, strengthen daily supervision and administrative guidance for platform companies, and promote the establishment of a multi-party participation in the prevention and control of takeaway food waste.
