Cheeses with a ‘wrong’ weight, are not different from other tasty cheeses sold in grocery stores, but for various reasons, their weight is either below or above the usual average. Approximately 2% of the cheese cuts have the wrong weight. These cheeses are produced daily at the 133-year-old Them Andelsmejeri dairy cooperative in Jutland.

Through a new collaboration, the cooperative Them Andelsmejeri dairy, the REMA 1000 retail chain and the Stop Wasting Food movement aim to tackle food waste and to ensure that these different cheeses are now made available in selected REMA 1000 stores throughout Denmark.

For every cheese sold, REMA 1000 and Them Andelsmejeri grant 0.75 DKK to the Stop Wasting Food movement, thus supporting the non-governmental organisation’s work to fight against food waste. The initiative to save cheese cuts with a ‘wrong’ weight that would have been otherwise wasted is the first of its kind in Denmark.

 For more information about the initiative [DK]: dsk.dk/ny-madspildsost-ser-stort-paa-vaegten