As a full-range supplier, EDEKA is aware of its ecological responsibility. Resource-saving packaging management plays a decisive role here, because in Germany there is still an increasing amount of packaging waste. The aim is to offer ecologically sensible packaging for food and products on the market and to give the consumer options in order to forego more and more packaging in the future. There are three main challenges in optimizing packaging management in the long term: abandoning and reducing packaging, alternative packaging systems and the search for ecologically sensible alternatives to plastic. If it is not possible to dispense with packaging, the most important thing is an ecologically sensible use of packaging and materials. Sustainable and scalable sales packaging for immediate consumption and for packing food on site (pre-packaging) as well as for customer purchases is of interest to markets.