Tag: ALDI

Supermarkets playing with fire on future of food, says WWF

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s broken food system is causing environmental collapse and creating volatility in supply and price, according to a report by WWF released recently.     Drawing on data from 10 retailers (Aldi, Asda, Co-op, Lidl GB, Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose), 2025’s What’s in Store for the Planet report assesses the progress on environmental action of 90% of the UK grocery market and concludes that action on reducing environmental risks is stagnating.   It warns that without decisive action environmental impacts will escalate, threatening food security and…

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UK’s largest grocery retailers set sights on prefill to take more single use packaging off shelf

Stuart Mitchell

Nine of the UK’s largest grocery retailers, with support from UK Governments and WRAP, have recently issued a joint Statement of Intent to explore how reusable packaging could be implemented across their stores and online.  The plan is to offer a system that makes it easy to shop for prefilled* items in stores and online and marks a bold commitment towards a standardised in-store and online system to reduce the amount of single use packaging put on the market, to give shoppers a better experience outside of single use packaging. …

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Aldi Becomes First UK Supermarket To Offer Free Period Products In Customer And Colleague Toilets

Stuart Mitchell

Aldi will be providing pads and tampons in its in-store toilets from today, with customers able to simply take what they need. The supermarket has also partnered with leading menstrual equity charity, Bloody Good Period, to donate over 1 million period products to support the charity’s fight against period poverty. The campaign is further backed by Clara Amfo, broadcaster and Bloody Good Period ambassador. New research** released today from the supermarket reveals the extent of the period poverty crisis across Britain, with over 1 in 3 of those who menstruate…

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Aldi Introduces HVO-Powered Trucks To Its Fleet

Stuart Mitchell

Aldi is converting more than 30% of its fleet of owned HGVs to operate on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuels. The move is taking place on more than 160 HGVs based at its Cardiff, Swindon and Neston distribution centres, and is expected to reduce the supermarket’s carbon footprint by approximately 15,432 tonnes of CO2e per year. HVO is a diesel alternative that significantly lowers greenhouse gas emissions compared with conventional diesel. If implemented across Aldi’s entire fleet of more than 550 HGVs, the change could eliminate an additional 55,130 tonnes…

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ALDI launches Fairtrade cocoa project

Stuart Mitchell

ALDI proudly continues to support its long-term Fairtrade partner and cocoa cooperative ECAMOM driving impactful initiatives aimed at fostering women’s empowerment, tackle child labour, enhancing financial inclusion, and ensuring sustainable agricultural practices to support readiness for EUDR. In 2020, the ALDI SOUTH Group, Fairtrade, the chocolate manufacturer Storck and the cocoa cooperative ECAMOM in Côte d’Ivoire established a strategic working relationship which resulted in annual Impact Reports. Through these impact reports, ECAMOM collected data from its 3,800 cocoa farmers on how the Fairtrade premium, received for the cocoa sold to…

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