3 ALDI Recyclability Guideline PREFACE Packaging is an indispensable part of our everyday lives. It ensures product quality and safety, it protects products during transport and also serves as a medium of communication. Simultaneously, the production of packaging requires varying amounts of raw materials, energy, and water. A central challenge for all retailers is the growing demand for sustainable packaging and the associated increase in raw material usage. It is essential to drive our industry forward and move from a linear to a circular economy. There is a need to incentivise the use of sustainable packaging and for policymakers to follow the ever-present calls for environmental protection. Both the ALDI Nord and ALDI SOUTH Groups (hereinafter referred to as “ALDI” 1 ) will use their ALDI packaging strategies to further promote the necessary expansion of circular economy and support the projects of global or national organisations (e.g. Plastic Pacts), legislative bodies (e.g. European Commission) and industry associations (e.g. APCO). Ambitious goals in terms of packaging material reduction, recyclability, and recycled content in plastic packaging have been set and to achieve these goals, all ALDI own-brand packaging, (provided by a wide range of national and international suppliers) needs to be designed for recycling. The term “recyclability” is very broadly defined and is often interpreted differently in the ALDI countries. By developing a recyclability guideline, ALDI is meeting the identified need to create transparency on an international basis. This guideline recommends packaging solutions to buyers for different markets and facilitates the assessment of compliance with sustainability criteria and shows ALDI suppliers the criteria for packaging optimisation and will simplify communication within the supply chains . This “International Recyclability Guideline” was created by ALDI Nord and ALDI SOUTH in a cooperation with the Institute cyclos-HTP (CHI) as a global recommendation for more circular packaging . 1) “ALDI” refers to the ALDI SOUTH Group (hereinafter also referred to as “ALDI SOUTH”) and the ALDI Nord Group (hereinafter also referred to as “ALDI Nord”). Both business groups are legally independent groups of retail companies trading under the ALDI brand.
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