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Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark (Stop Spild Af Mad) is Denmark’s largest non-profit movement against food waste, which has initiated the fight against food waste in Denmark. Since its foundation in 2008, Stop Wasting Food helped bringing massive focus on food waste on Denmark’s agenda and has achieved a large number of results in Denmark, in collaboration with EU and UN. Since 2008, Stop Wasting Food has generated 7,000+ Danish and international media coverages and has support of 60,000+ people – among them MP’s and MEP’s as well as Denmark’s former Prime Minister.

Stop Wasting Food is Partner of the United Nations SAVE FOOD initiative, the FAO/UNEP Think.Eat.Save campaign, the EU FUSIONS project and is Member of the European Commission’s EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste.

Selina Juul is a co-developer of the international Food Loss & Waste Protocol, the European Joint Declaration Against Food Waste, and she is a Member of Danish Government’s Partnership against Food Waste. She published an award winning Leftovers Cookbook “Stop spild af mad – en kogebog med mere” at Denmark’s biggest publishing agency Gyldendal with participation of Danish celebrity chefs and acknowledged Danish food personalities. She is also a contributor to over 23 Danish and international books and publications on food waste.

Selina Juul is a TEDx Speaker and Blogger on food waste at The Huffington Post USA, and since 2010 she wrote over 190 articles, blog entries and opinion-editorials on food waste in Danish and international media, among them opinion-editorials with 7 Danish Ministers and other politicians.

For her ongoing work on Stop Wasting Food, Selina Juul received many awards and acknowledgments, among them she is a Winner of The Womenomics Influencer Award, Winner of Nordic Council Nature and Environment Prize, Winner of Svend Auken Prize, Recipient of Cross of Merit Pro Utilitate Hominum of Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller, Winner of Junior Chamber International Denmark’s The Outstanding Young Person Award and a Recipient of Dane of the Year 2014 title for her work against food waste. She is also included in Who’s Who in Denmark.

See more at http://www.selinajuul.com

Klaus Jørgensen has extensive professional knowledge on food waste and since 2008, in collaboration with Selina Juul, he has been a driving force behind bringing focus on food waste on the Danish agenda. Stop Wasting Food and Danish Agriculture & Food Council with Klaus Jørgensen in lead had a good and fruitful collaboration since 2008 and have initiated several research studies, projects, campaigns and many other activities. Danish Agriculture & Food Council is a business organization for agriculture, the food industry and agro industry, which represents a large part of the food cluster, with Danish annual export of more than 157 billion DKK employing 190,000 employees, which makes it one of Denmark’s most important business sectors.

See more at http://www.agricultureandfood.dk

REMA 1000 Denmark was the first retail chain in Denmark, which has committed themselves to the fight against food waste, inspired by the Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark back in 2008. REMA 1000 has stopped bulk discounts in all of the chain’s Danish stores, thus contributing to less food waste. In addition, REMA 1000 began selling buy-per-weight vegetables and selling food products nearing their expiry dates at reduced prices, instead of throwing them out, as well as selling more single-friendly food in smaller packages. Stop Wasting Food and REMA 1000 with Anders René Jensen in lead had a long and fruitful collaboration since 2008 and have initiated several charity projects with distribution of free surplus food to food insecure citizens, campaigns and other activities.

Today, REMA 1000 Denmark has over 289 stores, employing over 10,000 employees in REMA 1000 retail chain. “Discount with attitude” is the headline of REMA 1000’s CSR work, and REMA 1000 is constantly working to promote organic food, less food waste, ethical trade and sustainable production. The Reitan Group is Scandinavia’s largest stakeholder in service trading. At the Nordic level and in the Baltic countries, The Reitan Group’s grocery stores employ 36,700 employees and have a total of 3,834 stores spread across several retail chains, including REMA 1000.

For their long-term commitment to the fight against food waste, Anders René Jensen and REMA 1000 received a CSR Partnership Prize 2013. In 2016, Anders René Jensen and REMA 1000 received the Danish Food Forum’s quality and innovation award “The Deep Plate” Award.

When projects and collaborations discussed in Stop Wasting Food NGO, which concern REMA 1000’s competitors, Anders René Jensen is not informed of the projects and collaborations in question.

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For the same cause DRC has initiated Restaurateurs’ Guarantee Agreement (REGA). REGA is an ambitious, industrywide collaboration between restaurateurs who are dedicated to upgrade and systematize their work with corporate social responsibility.

Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark and DRC have a years-long history of successful collaboration on reducing food waste in the restaurant industry. One example is Stop Wasting Food movement Denmark’s and DRC’s joint activities at People’s Meeting Bornholm (Folkemødet) such as panel debates on sustainability in the restaurant industry and distribution of free doggybags and Treat Boxes to the eateries and theirs guests. In addition, DRC supports the work of Stop Wasting Food movement by ensuring to put the fight against food waste higher on the political agenda.

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