To be able to monitor compliance with our social and environmental standards and to continue to foster these together with our business partners, we have developed and implemented our Social Monitoring Programme (SMP). On-site audits performed by independent experts are a key component of the programme. Since 2018, all high-risk non-food commodity groups of the ALDI SOUTH Group, including garment and household textiles, are integrated into our Social Monitoring Programme. 
 

Our Goals:

1. All high-risk non-food commodities are integrated within the Social Monitoring Programme.
2. All main production facilities used for non-food items, which have been integrated within the Social Monitoring Programme, are to possess a valid social audit report or certificate accepted by the ALDI SOUTH Group.

ALDI Social Assessments (ASA) are assessments of main production facilities that are carried out by ALDI employees together with external auditors and business partner representatives. These ASAs mainly take place in amfori BSCI risk countries.

Our Goals:

1. Assess the situation in the production facilities to complement third party audits.
2. Assess and collect information on the business partners responsible for the production facility.

Our Goal: We are committed to sourcing 100% of our shell eggs from cage-free supply chains by 2025.

Our Goal: All cocoa used in relevant own-brand products will be from certified sources by the end of 2020.

We require the cocoa used for our own-brand products to be certified according to one of the following standards:

• Fairtrade/Fairtrade Sourced Ingredients 
• UTZ/Rainforest Alliance 
• Organic

The indicator is based on all chocolates, biscuits, and seasonal confectionary as well as products from other commodity groups which contain at least 10% cocoa (exception ALDI US: chocolates and seasonal confectionary commodity groups; at least 40% cocoa), such as baking chocolate and drinking chocolate.

Our Goal: We will use 100% sustainable cotton for our own-brand garments and household textiles by 2025. 

We require the cotton used for our own-brand products to be of either recycled origin or certified according to one of the following internationally recognised sustainability standards:

• Fairtrade
• Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) 
• Organic Content Standard (OCS) 100/blended 
• Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) 
• Better Cotton Initiative (BCI)

Our Goal: All wood-based own-brand non-food products are to be produced from recycled or certified raw materials by 2020.

Relevant products include core range, special, and seasonal non-food products with wood fibre-based component(s), including wood fibre-based cellulose and pulp. (Exception ALDI US: relevant products include core range products with wood fibre-based components and all paper products.)

Our Goal: All textile business partners receive a Corporate Responsibility (CR) evaluation and respective training.

Our Goal: We aim to reduce our overall operational GHG emissions per m² of sales by 30% by 2020 (against baseline year 2012).

Our Goals:

1. Since 2015 we are working on phasing out or replacing hazardous chemicals used in the manufacturing processes for both textiles and shoes with safer alternatives.
2. We aim to reducing resource consumption in cotton cultivation and improving chemical management by also using certification schemes that focus on cotton processing like the Global Organic Textile Standard. We will ensure to use 100% sustainable cotton for our ALDI own-brand garments and household textiles by 2025.