Enviroment

Rimi is committed to reducing its environmental impact and supporting communities across the Baltics. The company aims to cut food waste by half by 2025 compared to 2016 and continues to strengthen partnerships with charity organizations to ensure surplus food reaches people in need. In 2023, Rimi significantly expanded its food donation efforts, providing the equivalent of around 130 truckloads of food to food banks across the Baltics. Rimi also achieved major progress in waste reduction, lowering food waste by 20 percentage points in 2023 and reducing CO₂ emissions by 7% compared to the previous year. In Estonia, Rimi remains one of the largest retail partners of the Food Bank, while in Latvia cooperation with the Samaritans Association continues twice a year, historically resulting in more than 14,000 donated food parcels. In Lithuania, Rimi stores host national Food Bank campaigns twice annually and donate products nearing expiry to over 230 charity organizations, helping thousands of families each year.

Rimi also takes active steps to reduce plastic packaging, aiming for all private label packaging to be recyclable and transitioning toward recycled or renewable materials by 2030. Customers are encouraged to choose reusable bags, supported by initiatives such as Estonia’s annual environmental month and Latvia’s “Day Without Plastic Bags.” Additional environmentally friendly actions include textile recycling containers in Latvia and the use of recycled-content paper in all Rimi Baltic Group offices. To further promote sustainable choices, Rimi continues to expand its range of organic and eco‑labelled products and has obtained organic certification for its warehouses in all three countries, as well as ISO 14001 certification for Central Sourcing. In 2023, Rimi also launched an open innovation platform and hosted its first retail hackathon, selecting six startups to pilot sustainability‑focused solutions across the business.