All Lidl articles
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ArticleFish trays from Lidl constitute 80% rPET in bid to reduce virgin plastic
Lidl is packaging its entire fish range in trays made with 80% recycled PET – which, alongside pre-existing rPET trays for fresh meat, are set to avoid 2,116 tons of virgin plastic every year.
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Article‘Best before’ dates on Lidl milk and yoghurt labels aim to reduce food waste
Lidl GB aims to help consumers reduce food waste at home by replacing ‘use by’ dates with ‘best before’ alternatives on its yoghurt and fresh milk products.
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ArticleOwner of Lidl and Kaufland pledges to use 30% less plastic by 2025
Schwarz Group, the multinational retail group operating Lidl and Kaufland, has set a new target to use 30% less plastic in its private label packaging across divisions by 2030.
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ArticleLidl to sell own-brand tea in ‘fully compostable’ tea bags
Lidl GB’s own-brand tea bags are set to transition into ‘fully compostable’, plant-based PLA packaging in an effort to keep 800 million tea bags out of landfill every year.
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ArticleLidl incorporates ‘ocean-bound’ plastic waste into sparkling water bottles
Lidl is implementing Prevented Ocean Plastic, or recovered ‘ocean-bound’ plastic waste, into its sparkling water packaging in an effort to keep almost 4 million plastic water bottles out of the oceans every year.
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ArticleLidl reveals plans to vacuum-pack its beef mince with aim of lowering plastic use by almost two-thirds
Lidl is set to vacuum-pack its beef mince range in what is said to be recyclable plastic – a move aiming to save a yearly 250 tonnes of plastic, reduce plastic use by 63%, and take up to 350 trucks off the road annually.
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ArticleFive Dutch retailers ban plastic bags for fruit and vegetables in favour of reusable alternatives
Dutch retailers Albert Heijn, ALDI, JUMBO, Lidl, and PLUS have pledged to implement reusable bags, which consumers can clean at home, for their fruit and vegetable products – a move expected to save an annual 126 million plastic bags and 10 million paper bags.
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ArticleLidl on the potential of edible coatings
Last month, Lidl Switzerland and Empa announced that their edible, naturally-derived cellulose coating for fruits and vegetables has demonstrated extended shelf life for fresh produce in preliminary trials. We caught up with Corina Milz, head of CSR and sustainability at Lidl Switzerland, to learn more about the innovation and its potential.
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ArticlePreliminary success for edible fruit and vegetable coating backed by Lidl
In collaboration with Lidl Switzerland, the materials and technology research group Empa has developed a protective, edible cellulose coating for fresh produce made from a natural residue derived from fruits, vegetables, or plants.
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ArticleGerman supermarket chains to introduce silphie packaging for fruit and vegetables
STI Group has worked with PreZero to develop a sustainable packaging solution made with locally grown silphie plant fibre, which it will supply to the supermarket chains Lidl and Kaufland.
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ArticleIceland trials new packaging in bid to reduce plastics
The frozen food supermarket chain Iceland has today announced the launch of nine new product lines that it says are plastic-free or have a heavily reduced plastic content, reportedly resulting in a reduction in plastic of 36.6 tonnes.
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ArticleBlack plastics: Can they be recycled?
The first and most obvious answer is ‘yes, of course they can – all plastics are recyclable’, but as many will be aware it’s not quite so straightforward. Victoria Hattersley spoke to some industry experts to shed some light on the subject.
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Article“It’s in our DNA”: Schur Flexibles lays out its sustainability vision
Martin Berlekamp, Head of Sustainability at Schur Flexibles Group, discusses the sustainability initiatives his firm is undertaking.
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ArticleFinalist interviews: Quinn’s fully recyclable black plastic tray
Today we speak to Thomas McCaffrey, new product development manager at Quinn, who talks us through a development with the potential to divert thousands of tonnes of black plastic ending up in landfill each year.
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Article"The Half-Life Will Shorten": Packaging in the age of the Zero Moment of Truth
Creative director in the packaging design department of Y&R BCN, Julie Asschenfeldt talks to Tim Sykes about designing packaging as part of a wider communication with consumers in a world undergoing digital transformation
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ArticleCoca-Cola Company, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and More to Present at Sustainability in Packaging Europe 2017
Smithers Pira are pleased to announce the confirmed programme for this year’s pioneering conference on Sustainability in Packaging Europe 2017, taking place in Barcelona across the 25 & 26 October 2017.
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