Aldi makes major change involving bread, crisps & biscuit packaging – here’s what to know

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New eco-friendly plans have recently been shared by the likes of Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s. Now Aldi is asking customers to bring in items to be recycled.

Many pieces of packaging and food waste can be recycled at home.

However, there are still a number of materials that cannot be widely recycled.

This includes the packaging of popular products such as crisp packets, bread bags and biscuits.

To stop these items ending up with general rubbish, Aldi has launched a new scheme.

It is trialling a service which allows customers to return to stores ‘soft’ plastics that are hard to recycle.

The recycling points will be located in 20 stores across Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Greater Manchester.

Collection bins will be available where eco-conscious shoppers can return clean ‘soft’ plastics.

The bins will accept hard to recycle items no matter where they were bought.

Aldi will go on to assess how each type of plastic can be processed and help manage the waste.

Right now, the clever recycling initiative is only available to shoppers in the North of England and East Midlands.

If it is successful, however, it could roll out to all of its UK stores.

The new facilities come as Aldi makes moves to reduce plastic waste.

It is working towards making all own-label packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable by next year.

Plastics and Packaging Director at Aldi UK Richard Gorman said: “We know our customers are environmentally-conscious.

“And as a responsible retailer, we are always striving to reduce plastic waste wherever possible.

“Our latest trial is another step in the right direction as we work towards being able to offer shoppers an option to bring problem plastic back to our stores that might not be recycled by their local councils.

“We will be monitoring the trial closely, and we hope that customers bring back their ‘soft’ plastics to our collection bins so that we can look at expanding this into more stores to help customers recycle.”

Strategic Engagement Manager at Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) added: “While plastic bags and wrapping makes up around a fifth of consumer plastic packaging, only six percent of it is recycled.

“UK Plastics Pact members, representing the vast majority of plastic packaging sold by supermarkets, have committed for all of it to be recyclable by 2025.

“In future years local authorities will collect this material for recycling but in the meantime supermarkets are able to provide recycling points for plastic bags and wrapping to the many citizens who want to recycle all that they can.

“It’s great to see Aldi trialling how this can be achieved.”

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