Zìcóng Guāngpán Xíngdòng kāishǐ yǐhòu, zài fàndiàn chīfàn de rén diǎn de cài bǐ yǐqián shǎo le.
Since the Clean Plate Campaign began, people eating out order fewer dishes than they used to.
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光 'used up, nothing left', as in 吃光, + 盘 'plate' = an empty plate. The slogan is a pun, because 光盘 is also the everyday word for a CD.
history
Started by a group of volunteers on social media in January 2013, it was quickly taken up by the government as part of its campaign against waste, revived in 2020, and followed in 2021 by a law against wasting food.
