ettse: that is adam pl reporting. 's law banning people throwing up food, france is making efforts to reduce food waste. when tossing out edibles, the top consumer is the worst offender. that is where chickens coming e in. french families can adopt laying hens and can maybe provide an egg or two. reporter: eric and his daughter are making dinner, but their new guests in the garden will eat first. stale bread and cucumber peelings that would've gone to the trash two weeks ago make a nice meal first that left and clara -- for stella and clara, a pair of birds that change the way the suburban family manages its trash. >> it forces us to do something we are not used to. up until now, since we lived in apartments, we tended to throw away peelings without taking about it. now we put them aside and think, hey, these can have another use. the family is one of 200 who signed up through their neighborhood association to adopt a pair of chickens. following in the footsteps of a dozen or so communities around france. >> hello, we