Food Waste Reduction Strategies
Piloting an organics recycling program in midwest stores that would divert food that could not be sold or donated to animal feed or compost, which helped them divert 37 tons of food from landfill.
Diverting 76% of operational waste across the company.
Recycling 1,645 tons of food between the ALDI Test Kitchen and select stores.
Donating 32M+ pounds of food from stores and warehouses to their donation partners.
Recycling, reusing, or donating over 385,000 tons of material – equivalent to more than 28,000 truckloads of ALDI product – that would have otherwise gone to landfill.