This is Mur 
@mur2501 How... do they check it?
@trinsec
In public restaurants, lunch houses and other public places if you left a good amount of food on your plate then you go to jail 
@mur2501 Mrmf, you paid for it, so you can do whatever with it imo. They'd do better to focus education on doing less waste instead.
@trinsec
Didn't expected this answer 
@mur2501 I'm deeply disapproving of police states.
@trinsec
The police state stuff is a different argument. My point was about lessening the waste of food.
@mur2501 Lessening the waste of food is good. Education is paramount here. Making it a 'crime' is not solving things.
Look up how well 'the war on drugs' went in USA?
Hint: It didn't work very well.
Prohibition period in USA? (where alochol was forbidden)
Hint: That also didn't go well.
Educate!
@trinsec
You should stop using the paid for arguments in some arguments. Cause 'paid for' is also the reason why so much amount of waste is generated in America and Europe each year. Also freedom shall come without payment.
Anyway China isn't gonna lock citizens over that stuff (they are evil not dumb). It's just that restaurant will have to stop promoting excessive useless buying of food to make profit.
@mur2501
Well.. you were the one mentioning jail. :P
And if it is something that I *own*, chances are I can decide at my own what to do with it. It is nobody elses business what is in my fridge.
@trinsec
Jail was just for irony also it suits with China
No one is interested in your fridge, most food waste happens in factories and industrial stuffs. Also restaurants and hotels are a noticeable contributer too.
@mur2501
Well excuse me for being autistic so I'd have problems with spotting some forms of irony. :P
And industrial? That's easier. I believe there is already rules in place to lessen waste.
And restaurants have the means to combat it too.
@trinsec
First there are not much rules that deals with food waste and also if there are then the industries truly comply with it or not is very doubtable. Also the main point for restaurants, hotel and industries comes here that they all really don't want to spend money on waste, they are there for making profit not social good.
@mur2501 Okay. Over THERE it might be a huge problem. Over HERE companies have to pay for waste, that would include food waste. If they can decrease this, they can earn more. It's an incentive at least.
I've just helped my mother with prepping up some food. She also taught me a thing about food waste with regards to paprika. :P
And I learned that TV cooks are really wasteful. :P
@mur2501 (With TV cooks I consider this a problem, actually. Since they have an educating factor, and people might think it's normal to throw away that huge chunk of perfectly fine food... But the cooks have to work fast for the TV, so they can't obsess over every part of the food.)
@mur2501
You were interpreting that wrong. I don't think wasting food is a good thing. But to lock me up or punish me for it while it is my own decision and paid for is a bridge too far. If I would buy a bike and then destroy it, would I need to be punished for that as well? Imagine all those poor countries who could use a bike very well!
Again, I don't condone wasting of food. Even I am guilty of it (I miscalculate often) and am annoyed at myself for it. But punish? No.