HUNGARY: Lidl invests 2.6 million euros to modernize waste disposal | Progresiv

German retail chain Lidl has invested 800 million forints (about 2.6 million euros) in Hungary to modernize waste disposal processes at its stores in the country, in order to ensure that 95% of its waste is reusable, Lidl said in an announcement today, according to news agency MTI. Through the investment, Lidl expects to cut the size of generated compressed waste to one fourth of what it used to be.

The company has modernized waste management machines at 79 of its Hungarian stores, and all the 164 locations will have gone through the same modernization process by the end of its 2016 financial year, MTI said.

Lidl has been operating in the country since 2004 and currently employs almost 4,000 people. (www.bbj.hu)