Lidl Ireland Announces Nationwide Roll Out of ‘Waste Not’ Fruit and Veg Boxes

Date published: February 13, 2023

Lidl Ireland is proud to announce the launch of their Waste Not Fruit and Veg boxes. The boxes, priced at just €3, will contain at least 5kg of mixed fruit and vegetables from the store shelves. The fruit and vegetables included in the boxes will have come from multi packs where some product has become slightly damaged and removed, and the remaining items which are perfectly good to eat are then used to make up the Waste Not boxes. Following a successful trial in seven stores, Lidl Ireland will roll out the Waste Not Boxes to their network of 176 stores nationwide. This move will make Lidl the first retailer to implement an initiative of this scale nationally. Throughout the ongoing trial period, which launched in September 2022, more than 3,700 Waste Not boxes were sold preventing over 18,500kg of food going to waste and it is estimated that the nationwide rollout will save a further 950,000kg tonnes of food waste per year.