French Food Waste Vocab

Le Gaspillage- the waste

La consommation responsable: the responsible consumption

La mésure: the measures/the rules

Les pêcheurs/les pêcheuses: the fishermen

(Un pêcheur: a fisherman/une pêcheuse: a fisherwoman)

La surpêche: the overfishing

La surpatûrage: the overgrazing

Les gestes anti-gaspillage: the anti-waste actions

La loi: the law

Le bas: the low

Les grandes surfaces: the big store chains?

Le glaneur/la glaneuse: the gleaner (someone who gathers leftover agricultural crops, especially after a harvest modernly to address food insecurity)

Une astuce: a tip/an advice

Le glanage: the gleaning

Le bénévole: the volunteer

Le producteur: the producer

La table de troc: the trading table

Un fléau: a scourge

Une association caritative: a charitable organization

La date de péremption: the expiration date

Une étape: a step

La récolt: the harvest

La taille: the size/height

La benne/la poubelle: the trash

Le champ: the field

La rupture de la chaîne de froid: break of cold chain

Gaspiller: to waste

Nourrir: to feed someone else

Se nourrir: to feed oneself

Gâcher: to wreck

Perdre: to lose

Réduire: to reduce

Vendre: to sell

Congeler: to freeze

Chasser: to hunt

Augmenter: to increase

Diminuer: to decrease

Plannifer: to plan

Établir: to establish

Lutter: to fight

Consommer: to consume

Faire don de: to donate

Trier: to sort

Agir: to act

Manquer: to miss or be missing

Peser: to weigh

Prévoir: to plan

Tailler: to cut

Être périmé: to be expired

Emballé: packaged

Pourri: rotted

Non-calibré: not calibrated?

Moche: ugly

Surgelé: frozen

Abîmé: destroyed

Invendu: not sold/leftover

Anti-gaspi: anti-waste

Zero-gâchi: zero waste

Tâchê: a stain

Je me suis aperçue que: I noticed that

On constate que: one notices that

C’est pressure autant que: it is as much