Another buyer is Zerostock in Belfeld. That company has been around for four years and does business with retail chains. “Our turnover has increased by about 50 percent in one year,” says Pim Reijerink. Still, he thinks that a lot of trade is still thrown away: “Often it is just much cheaper. We try to work in a circular way and still earn something from it.”
Reijerink gives an example: “A retail chain had made a huge error of judgment in the purchase of gingerbread cookies and was left with 50,000 boxes. They wanted to throw it away, but we sold that batch to a Dutch discounter called Medikamente Die Grenze. She sold them at Christmas as ‘reindeer droppings’.”