Kraft Heinz Company Sustainability Actions

Working to Alleviate Global Hunger

The Kraft Heinz Company Foundation (Kraft Heinz Foundation) pursues its mission through strategic partnerships with organizations that have programs aligned with hunger relief, nutrition support and self-sustaining food sources. Kraft Heinz employees from all corners of the world have passionately joined the Foundation through volunteer efforts towards our goals, highlighting the critical nature and immediacy of our work in alleviating world hunger. We are proud of the progress we’ve made upon our original goal to deliver 1 billion nutritious meals to those in need by 2021. At the end of 2020, through a combination of financial support and product donations, we have delivered more than 745 million meals to those in need since 2016. We have put our foot on the accelerator, and in 2020 we provided more than 206 million meals to people in need. Our current total for 2019-2020 has now broached 345 million meals to those in need toward our new 1.5 billion meal target by 2025 – we’re 23 percent of the way there.

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Waste Reduction

At Kraft Heinz, we think about waste holistically. To source, produce and package food and beverage products requires several inputs and outputs related to ingredients and byproducts, material flows and end-of-life package considerations. When we think about materials and food-related flows, detailed waste evaluations help us identify where we can ‘reduce, repurpose and recycle.’ In fact, our global owned manufacturing sites divert more than 90 percent of our solid waste to recycling or byproducts usage. We look forward to increasing diversion from landfill for the remaining less than 10 percent. As of December 31, 2020, about 10 percent of Kraft Heinz global manufacturing facilities had achieved zero-waste-to-landfill status. We’re working to achieve zero-waste at additional sites by standardizing, replicating and rolling out these best practices as broadly as possible across our network in partnership with third- party service providers.

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Designing for Recyclability

Kraft Heinz is a member of the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), the international trade association representing the plastics recycling industry, leveraging the APR Design® Guide for Plastics Recyclability to help design recyclable plastic packaging. Additionally, Kraft Heinz is a member of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), a membership-based collaborative that believes in the power of industry to make packaging more sustainable. The SPC works to make packaging that is good for people and the environment, in support of its mission to “bring packaging sustainability stakeholders together to catalyze actionable improvements to packaging systems and lend an authoritative voice on issues related to packaging sustainability.” Flexible Packaging Recycled into Roofing Material: In 2020, Kraft Heinz completed a pilot project to demonstrate the use of roof board made from recycled flexible packaging. The test was made possible by the Company’s participation in Materials Recovery For the Future (MRFF), a non-profit research collaborative that set out to determine the technical and economic feasibility to collect, sort, bale and recycle flexible plastic packaging. The project installed roofing material made from post-consumer flexible plastic into two Kraft Heinz manufacturing plants, in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin and in Holland, Michigan. The materials were installed late in the year and comprised of 4’ X 8’ boards, with 94 percent of each board made of post-consumer recycled plastic and fiber.

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Renewable Electricity

Kraft Heinz is committed to operating responsibly and doing its part in the critical global efforts to reduce the harmful impacts of climate change. A big component of that commitment is both reducing how much energy we consume, and thereby reducing the associated emissions where applicable, as well as rethinking our energy sources. That is why in 2020, we committed to buy the majority of our electricity from renewable sources by 2025. During 2020, we also embarked upon several energy optimization initiatives at our global facilities, both combining smart long-term investments in energy efficiency, as well as instituting best practices aimed at controls and real-time operations management towards our energy stewardship goals.

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Sustainably Sourced Palm Oil

Kraft Heinz recognizes that unsustainable palm oil production is one of the largest drivers of deforestation globally, and as an organization we have taken active steps to address these issues in our supply chain. As of 2022, Kraft Heinz now only purchases 100% sustainable palm oil. We are aiming to purchase 100% traceable palm oil to the mill by 2022.

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Sustainable Agriculture

As a food and beverage company, we recognize the importance of sustainable agriculture in all of our products. Through the work of our experienced agronomists and procurement teams, we are proud to work with our suppliers to advance sustainable agriculture practices knowing that these commodities are integral to our business and to the well-being of our consumers and communities in which we operate. At Kraft Heinz, sustainable agriculture has been a history of working with growers to drive rotational crops to promote multigenerational fields, increase yield at the field and in processing, drive next generation breeding through our seed business and find ways to help increase water efficiency. Through thorough research in our laboratories and with experienced agronomist teams on the ground, we strive to stay at the forefront of sustainable agriculture, applying what we learn to additional parts of our business. The Kraft Heinz Sustainable Agriculture Practices guides our engagement strategy with our growers through 2025. We aim to dig deep in our roots to use 150 years of forward-looking, responsible agricultural and human rights practices to build on our agricultural legacy with our farmers. We are committed to bringing forward our sustainability heritage, as Henry J. Heinz (founder of the H.J. Heinz Company) famously noted, “Protect the consumer by owning the product all the way from the soil to the table.” We are excited to begin reworking this program and commit to sharing our progress.

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