Aldi Australia tackles sustainable packaging

The retailer has partnered with Pact Group to include a minimum of 50% recycled materials across its brand packaging by 2025.

Aldi Australia has amped up sustainability efforts via its new partnership to implement recycled materials into its packaging. The retailer has entered into a strategic partnership with Pact Group to provide its supplier partners with improved access to recycled packaging for its brand products.

The partnership is expected to drive progress towards the grocery retailer’s ambition to achieve at least a 50% inclusion of recycled material in packaging by 2025.

The association provides opportunities to improve the rigid plastic packaging used in Aldi’s exclusive brands. Once achieved, this is expected to remove around 1,500 tonnes of virgin plastic from the company’s brand beverage products.

“As part of our commitment to Making a Good Difference, we are aiming to reduce plastic in packaging by 25% and to include a minimum of 50% recycled materials in our packaging by 2025. We’re confident working with an industry leader in circular packaging like Pact Group, will tip the scale and push us closer towards meeting our commitments,” said Oliver Bongardt, Managing Director of Buying at Aldi Australia.

Pact will also work with Aldi’s supplier partners to redesign existing packaging in smarter, more efficient ways, further reducing plastic and ensuring all materials used in packaging can be fully recycled.