In Italy, our Plasmon brand launched a fully recyclable baby food pouch in partnership with Gualapack, a leading Italian company specialized in high-performance pouch packaging. The 100 percent fruit snack designed to be good for children, is now also good for the environment. The pouch is designed to be easily recycled in its respective recycling stream, certified by independent institutes HTP Cyclos and Interseroh Dienstleistungs GmbH. This means that after use, pouches can be collected and turned into new non-food products within a Circular Economy framework. Through this initiative, Plasmon successfully reached 97 percent fully recyclable packaging for its Italian market. Annually, we estimate giving new life to over 270 tons of plastic, which will become new containers, caps, textile fibers, components for cars and household appliances, laboratory equipment and much more.

Kraft Heinz also became a member and supporting partner of the Composting Consortium. Managed by the Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners, the Composting Consortium is a multi-year collaboration across the entire compostable packaging value chain to pilot industry-wide solutions and build a roadmap for investment in technologies and infrastructure that enable the recovery of compostable food packaging and food scraps. Launched in November 2021, the consortium brings together leading voices in the composting ecosystem in the United States to identify the best path forward to increase the recovery of compostable food packaging and drive toward circular outcomes.

In 2020, Kraft Heinz completed a pilot project to demonstrate the use of roof board made from recycled flexible film packaging, installing roofing at two Kraft Heinz manufacturing plants. The pilot was made possible through our collaboration with 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. In 2021, we installed more roof board at our Granite City, Illinois facility, increasing the use of post- consumer recycled packaging by 15 times as compared to our 2020 pilot. We look forward to exploring additional ways at scaling innovative packaging solution initiatives like these. Moreover, at Kraft Heinz we are committed to engaging in industry-wide efforts to promote packaging circularity, aiming to strengthen the demand for recycled plastics throughout the supply chain. As such, we are proud inaugural members of the Association of Plastic Recycler’s Residential Film Demand Champion Program.