In the United Kingdom the dairy cooperative Arla UK, a subsidiary of the Denmark headquartered dairy cooperative Arla, has since 2017 donated equivalent of 10 million meals to charity partner FareShare. FareShare works with the food industry to take good-to-eat surplus food, which might otherwise go to waste, and redistribute it to a network of 8500 charities and community groups across the country. When the partnership first began in 2017, Arla introduced a process across its sites that enabled any unsold stock to be regularly offered to FareShare. In 2022 alone Arla diverted the equivalent of over one million meals of surplus dairy products.