In April 2015, French policymakers released ambitious proposals for a national policy against food waste. Fighting Food Waste: Proposals for a Public Policy offers a set of ideas for prevention, recovery and recycling. Some measures, including a ban on supermarket food waste, have already entered the legislative process, and others may follow. Proposals recommend actions by stakeholders across the food system, including large waste generators, food processors, retailers, restaurants, and educators.

In 2016, ReFED published A Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste by 20 percent, which is the most comprehensive analysis of U.S. food waste and solutions to date. ReFED now works with food businesses, foundations, investors, innovators, and policymakers to implement food waste solutions at scale, putting the U.S. on the path to achieving the USDA/EPA goal of halving food waste by 2030. 

ReFED subsequently developed a Retail Food Waste Action Guide designed to help retail businesses that provides industry-specific guidance on implementing food waste reduction solutions and recommendations.   

Practical solutions for retailers in terms of prevention, recovery, and recycling are presented. It suggests developing a top-down food waste reduction culture that flows from the executive suite to store employees and permeates every department in support of a defined strategy and goals. As well as new prevention solutions enabled by emerging digital technologies, taking advantage of the PATH Act to improve the economics of recovery, and utilizing new tools and the outputs of recycling, retailers can create competitive cost advantages and build revenues.