More than half a billion bottles were returned in Lidl stores

By mid-July this year, customers had returned more than 500 million returnable beverage packaging to Lidl’s REpoints, while in November last year this number was 150 million. This means that in the period from December to mid-July, customers returned more than twice as many beverage packaging in Lidl stores as in the first 11 months of the system’s introduction, and an average customer returned 27 bottles at a time. 52% of the returned amount is PET bottles, 41% is aluminum cans and 7% is glass.

“As a responsible, market-leading company, we place special emphasis on environmental protection, which is why we want to set an example with our own sustainability commitments and our active role in national initiatives. This is also the case with the collection of beverage packaging. We were among the first to implement the bottle return system, which has been legally mandatory since January 1, 2024, in our national store network. And our customers are taking advantage of the opportunity; so far, we have collected a total of approximately 26 million kg of aluminum beverage cans, glass and plastic bottles, so this amount can continue to be used as raw material in the economy,”

– stated Judit Tőzsér, the company’s head of communications.