Yonkers Insider: Town of Greenburgh: Large supermarkets required to give edible excess food to the poor-law developed by Greenburgh.

One in seven New Yorkers do not have enough food. Yet supermarkets throw out good edible food daily . . . and send it to landfills for disposal. Based on a law developed in Greenburgh, Governor Cuomo has signed a law providing that large supermarkets statewide are required to make excess edible food available to religious or other non-profit organizations which provide food for free to the needy. The law was developed by the Greenburgh Conservation Advisory Council and Greenburgh Councilman Ken Jones. The law is modeled after the French law adopted in 2016, which was passed unanimously by the French Parliament. Mike Sigal, Vice-Chair of our CAC, and his wife learned of the law while in France, and Mike then arranged to meet with the French legislator who authored the law. The CAC and Councilman Jones then worked with Assemblyman Tom Abinanti, Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins and the Governor's office -pushing for the adoption of the law which was signed last week.