In 2017, Lidl launched an extensive project with the goal that all the company’s transport between warehouse and store would be fossil -free at the end of the financial year 2025.
But already at the beginning of the year, the last truck with diesel in the tank rolled out on the roads. Since February 1, you now run fossil -free, which Today’s industryDi, was the first to rewrite.
“We are very proud, especially when you understand how long – and long -term – we have worked against it,” says Lidl’s sustainability manager Anneli Bylund.
In order for transport to be counted as fossil -free, the fuel must provide an emission reduction of 70 percent compared to other, fossil alternatives. This is in accordance with the definition from Fossil -free Sweden and the proposal for the EU renewability directive.
Nowadays, Lidl uses only transport operated on biogas, HVO100 and electricity.
One goal Lidl is working towards now is that no truck that goes between warehouse and store should have a filling rate that is lower than 95 percent. Likewise, that the trucks do not return empty from the store after delivery.
“In the Halmstad region, a truck that delivered goods to a store can not only take plastic, bales and empty cages back also pick up a supplier product on the road and drive it to the central warehouse in Halmstad,” Bylund tells Di.