Aldi, Lidl and Rewe want to go as pioneers and some of the specific products from the range ban. Soon the Change is implemented.
First, on Wednesday, the EU has announced that single-use plastic is prohibited. Up to the year 2021 environmentally damaging products such as drinking straws, plastic plates and cotton swab to be withdrawn from sale. Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord want to go ahead with good example and disposable plastic earlier from its branches to banish.
Aldi comes to EU legislation before
such As the Rheinische Post reports, wants to replace the discounters from the end of this year, cotton swab of plastic with those made from paper. Plastic drinking straws, Party tableware or disposable cups should then disappear from the beginning of 2019, from the “shelves or through more environmentally-friendly Alternatives”, quoted the newspaper the discounters. To Aldi Süd, the EU rules, before you want to apply two years later. According to the decision of the EU should also be recycled more and the industry are involved in certain measures.
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Also, net, Edeka, Lidl and Rewe are to banish plastic
Not only Aldi plastic says the fight: Lidl and Rewe have already announced, to dispense with utensils, drinking straws and disposable cups made of plastic. But not immediately: Lidl wants to replace until the end of 2019, disposable plastic articles such as drinking straws, cups, plates, Cutlery and cotton swabs completely recyclable products. Rewe plans to eliminate by 2020 any plastic-disposable tableware from the range. The renunciation of disposable plastic straws, the grocer had already announced in July.
to Edeka belonging to the discounters, net of 2019, also, nationwide, the sale of plastic Cutlery and Canl? Bahis disposable cups made of plastic. Edeka self-developed according to a company spokesperson, in a targeted Reusable items to avoid disposable plastic utensils, and relies on the increased use of renewable raw materials such as bamboo.
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Further changes in markets and discounters
the drugstore chain dm wants to go in terms of the environment as a pioneer and has announced a new feature: Certain products in the future for self-filling. And also at Edeka, there are changes in: The supermarket is taking certain products from the range, including, for example, Mars and Red Bull. Environmental aspects are not stuck, however, behind it.
Aldi are some of the products are so popular that there are not a lot of Trouble for the customers, if they can get it. So this is done with an unbeatable offer that was sold out in some stores after two minutes.
competition threatens the German discounters, such as Lidl and Aldi with a new market of Russia, the Mega-Dumping-prices promises. But already at the Start there were problems.
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