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WASTE MANAGEMENT
Our teams have been developing innovative ways of managing our waste streams to ensure we recycle more and reduce our general waste. As well as recycling more, we have set ourselves ambitious targets of decreasing our overall waste numbers - this target will continue to challenge us as our organisation grows. This year we achieved Zero Waste to Land ll for the rst time and are working hard to maintain this. We also developed a food surplus redistribution programme, Lidl Feed It Back, and our waste management programme won numerous prestigious awards in 2017.
2020 Goals and KPIs REDUCE GENERAL WASTE BY 10%
ZERO WASTE TO LANDFILL
REDISTRIBUTE 1 MILLION MEALS IN SURPLUS FOOD
6%
ON TRACK ACHIEVED
ON TRACK
61%
HUGH McAFEE AND TEAM.
Business Recycling Champion, Pakman Awards 2017.
The majority of our waste is cardboard, which is reused for paper and packaging. Our plastic is recycled, and organic waste is turned into renewable energy through a process called anaerobic digestion.
BATTERIES FOR BARRETSTOWN
This year Lidl and the European Recycling Platform (ERP) Ireland launched a new three-year initiative, ‘Batteries for Barretstown,’ aimed
at increasing awareness of battery recycling and raising much-needed funds for the children’s charity, Barretstown.
CARDBOARD
3.1%
PLASTICS
4%
2%
general
category 3
ZERO WASTE TO LANDFILL
24%
OTHER
organic
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