Chickens offered to Belgians whose bins overflow
BRUSSELS — Belgian families accused of posing a health hazard with bins overflowing with food waste are to be offered chickens to clean up their mess, a town official said on…
BRUSSELS — Belgian families accused of posing a health hazard with bins overflowing with food waste are to be offered chickens to clean up their mess, a town official said on Friday.Fifty families in the western town of Mouscron will receive two egg-laying hens each to help reduce the environmental threat from leftover food tossed away, offering "dual benefit," health official Christophe Deneve told AFP.Deneve said that families in the town of 52,000 people, near the French border city of Lille, will have to give written assurances that they will "not eat the chickens within two years" and authorise inspection visits. Copyright © 2010 AFP. All rights reserved. More »
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