Company: KHC
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: PX14A6G
Source: 0001214659-25-005723
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Company: Kraft Heinz Co
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: PX14A6G
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 new U.S. state laws that impose fees on corporations for single-use plastic (SUP) packaging.
The European Union has banned ten common SUP pollutants and imposed a tax on non-recycled plastic packaging waste. A French
law requires 10% of packaging be reusable by 2027 and Portugal requires 30% reusable packaging by 2030. Additionally, consumer
demand for sustainable packaging is increasing.

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https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf,
p.4

https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/10/breakingtheplasticwave_mainreport.pdf,
p.9

https://www.packworld.com/sustainable-packaging/recycling/article/22922253/ameripen-shares-key-lessons-from-early-epr-adopters

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/plastics/single-use-plastics_en

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/51843/plastics-reuse-and-refill-laws

https://www.shorr.com/resources/blog/the-2022-sustainable-packaging-consumer-report/

| 2025                                                                      
 Proxy Memo                                                                
 The Kraft Heinz Co | Sustainable Packaging Policies for Flexible Plastics |

Pew Charitable Trusts’ groundbreaking study, Breaking the Plastic Wave (the “Pew Report”), concluded that improved recycling alone is insufficient to address plastic pollution—instead,
recycling must be coupled with reductions in use, materials redesign, and substitution. The Pew Report finds that the greatest
opportunity to reduce or eliminate plastic lies with flexible plastic packaging, often used for chips, sweets, and condiments among other
uses, which is virtually unrecyclable in America. With innovation, redesign, and substitution, 26 million metric tons of plastic flexible
packaging can be avoided globally.

Kraft Heinz acknowledges that flexible packaging makes up the majority
of the 13% of its packaging that is unrecyclable but has not committed to action to meet its goal for 100% recyclable packaging by 2025.
In the absence of immediate action to eliminate flexibles by robustly engaging in research and development of reusable packaging, Kraft
Heinz is on track to fail to meet its 100% recyclable packaging goal.

The Pew Report finds that reducing plastic use is the most viable solution
from environmental, economic, and social perspectives, yet broad corporate and stakeholder alignment on flexible packaging solutions is