Aldi promises 100% sustainable packaging by 2025

Grocery store chain Aldi recently announced a series of commitments to ensure 100% sustainable packaging by 2025.

According to an official news release, the company is promising reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging and a 15% reduction in overall packaging material.

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“ALDI has never offered single-use plastic shopping bags. And while we’re pleased that we’ve helped keep billions of plastic grocery bags out of landfills and oceans, we want to continue to do more,” Aldi U.S. CEO Jason Hart said in a statement. “The commitments we’re making to reduce plastic packaging waste are an investment in our collective future that we are proud to make.”

According to company estimates, Aldi’s lack of single-use plastic grocery bags “has helped keep approximately 15 billion single-use plastic bags out of landfills and oceans.”

The new commitments, part of a larger corporate responsibility program, include the following goals:

By 2020

• All of Aldi-exclusive consumable packaging will include a standardized How2Recycle label
• Aldi will implement an initiative to make private-label product packaging easier for customers to reuse