Ciao, food waste. In Italy, lawmakers are encouraging diners to embrace takeout bags so the country throws out less food.

The problem: Wasting food costs Italy the equivalent of $14 billion a year, the New York Times reported. In Italy, each person chucks roughly 176 pounds of food a year. In the U.S., $29 billion worth of food is wasted each year because people get confused by sell-by dates, Mic previously reported.

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Source: https://mic.com/articles/