Environmental Sustainability Goals
Kraft Heinz is committed to reducing its operational environmental footprint. We have prioritized projects across our global manufacturing network in the areas of water conservation, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), waste reduction, and packaging.
Kraft Heinz is committed to reducing its operational environmental footprint. We have prioritized projects across our global manufacturing network in the areas of water conservation, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), waste reduction, and packaging.
In 2022, we reduced water use intensity by 8.7 percent for all facilities, and by 16.07 percent in high-risk watershed areas. We also reduced energy use intensity by 4.22 percent, and waste to landfill intensity by 18.40 percent. This performance was primarily driven by acquisitions and divestitures in 2022 that readjusted our baseline year calculations.* We are working to ensure that any new acquisitions have a strong strategy in place to improve their environmental footprint and are further pushing our global facilities to continue to drive progress and share best practices with one another. We remain confident we have set up the proper management systems and governance structure, and are leveraging appropriate resources to keep us on course toward achieving of our manufacturing ESG goals by 2025.
We continue to recognize the significant environmental impacts a growing population can have, and we remain steadfast in balancing production processes that can meet global food demand with efficient operation. Through thorough assessment and strong management processes and routines, we see opportunities for improvement at various stages of our operations, and we continue to learn from external perspectives, as well as ourselves, by continuously fostering efficiency improvements in an environment of collaboration, ownership, and innovation. The Kraft Heinz Management System (KHMS) is a set of standard practices and routines that is tailored to advance our operational excellence journey. KHMS is one of the key drivers of our sustainable manufacturing strategy as it guides the implementation of practices to reduce water use, energy use, GHG emissions, and waste output. These practices help guide our manufacturing teams, continuously challenge themselves toward our strategic goals, and learn better ways to improve and sustain their results.
Kraft Heinz Management System
The Kraft Heinz Management System (KHMS) standard practices are organized into eight pillars, each with its own specific function but simultaneously interconnected to drive sustainable efficiency improvements. Since adopting this framework, we have completed many innovative and impactful projects across the world and made significant positive progress toward our ESG goals. The following pages describe our progress and examples of successful projects across each of our environmental goals.
* In 2022, the combination of divestitures and acquisition passed our 5 percent materiality threshold and thus data from these facilities were added and removed respectively from our baseline year. In total we have added one facility (as part of our Assan Foods purchase) and removed 11 facilities divested between 2019 and 2022 across the globe from our baseline year. Please note that environmental data for years between the base year and reporting year are not recalculated as per our Basis of Reporting for key ESG indicators.
* In 2022, the combination of divestitures and acquisition passed our 5 percent materiality threshold and thus data from these facilities were added and removed respectively from our baseline year. In total we have added one facility (as part of our Assan Foods purchase) and removed 11 facilities divested between 2019 and 2022 across the globe from our baseline year. Please note that environmental data for years between the base year and reporting year are not recalculated as per our Basis of Reporting for key ESG indicators.
