Aldi is stepping up its push to reduce single-use plastics in its stores by removing all plastic lids on its own label fresh cream and ready-to-drink coffee products
From March, the discounter will stock these products without plastic lids in over 780 stores across England and Wales. The initiative is expected to remove around 34 million pieces of single-use plastic from the market.
In addition, from the end of February, Aldi will trial the removal of plastic lids from its large Greek-style flavoured yogurt pots. If successful, this will be rolled out across all 500g yogurt pots, eliminating a further 34 million pieces of plastic.
These moves are the chain’s latest steps to scrap unnecessary plastic as it works towards reducing plastic packaging by 25% by the end of 2023.
Fritz Walleczek, Managing Director of Corporate Responsibility at Aldi, said: “We are committed to cutting the amount of plastic that Aldi and our customers use, particularly unnecessary, single-use plastic like secondary lids.
“Every step like this brings us closer to our target of reducing the amount of plastic we use in packaging by 25%.”
Aldi added that it was on track to have all its own label packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2022.
