We’re pretty lucky at milk* to be working with several clients who believe in long-term sustainability and giving back. We also hate to waste, that’s why this piece in the Huffington Post caught our eye. Recently, France’s parliament voted to forbid big supermarkets from destroying unsold food, requiring them to give it to charities. Now, Britain’s largest grocer, Tesco, will be giving away unsold food to women’s centers and children’s breakfast clubs. The move will help curb the massive amount of food wasted globally each year. According to the World Food Program, 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted each year with rich countries throwing out almost as much food as the total amount of food produced in sub-Saharan Africa. Locally, we’re proud of City Harvest, which rescues over 136,000 pounds of food each day from NYC restaurants, grocers, and corporate cafeterias, helping to feed the more than 1 million New Yorkers. It’s a cool trend and you can bet we’ll be looking to help out in anyway we can. In the meantime, here’s 12 ways we can all stop wasting food from Wholefoods.com.