fbtechreview.comAPRIL - 20228in myviewHow Kraft Heinz Embeds Waste Management in a Circular EconomyBY SABINE HILLER, HEAD OF ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY ­ INTERNATIONAL, THE KRAFT HEINZ COMPANYWithin our sites we use continuous improvement tools to optimize our ingredients and materials resulting in low losses and thus less wasteAt 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.In 2021, our manufacturing sites reduced their waste to landfill by20 percent and we continue to make good progress. At Kraft Heinz we consider our waste a valuable resource and we try to generate as little as possible of it and where we do, we optimize the destination for use in other industries. Our production processes are very efficient, and we often have to disappoint vendors, when they find out just how small our waste streams are. Also, financially you can see the impact; where the total management of by-products and waste today is generating money for us as a company, while it was costing us money in the past. Zero wasteOver 2021,the number of zero waste sites across our International Zone increased significantly and other sites sent out less than one waste truck a month. We work with our procurement team and our suppliers to optimize the packaging of our ingredients and cleaning aids. Ideally, the packaging are taken back and re-used by our supplier, like aluminum drums and plastic sheets. But where this is not possible, we work with our suppliers to use packaging
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