Company: KHC
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000266
Chunk: 47

Company: Kraft Heinz Co
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 47
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 they protect our products throughout their shelf life, maintain quality, prevent food waste, and meet our customer and consumer expectations. While these materials offer significant functionality, we recognize that the recycling infrastructure in many countries where we sell our products is not yet advanced enough to efficiently collect, recycle and convert these materials into viable end products at scale. We are actively working to address these challenges by collaborating with stakeholders and exploring innovative solutions to improve the recyclability of these materials and support the development of more advanced recycling systems. DESIGNING FOR FUTURE RECYCLABILITY Our strategy for driving improvement in this space focuses on two key pillars: Design and Infrastructure. We are confident that for materials to be recycled at scale, they must be purposefully designed to integrate with the infrastructure that collects, sorts, and converts them into new raw materials. As part of our commitment to sustainability, we are designing our packaging to meet or exceed existing and future industry standards. For instance, we are working to make our film and flexible portfolio ‘Designed for the Future of Recycling’ (DFR), aligning with global guidelines such as APR and CEFLEX. We have adopted five of the Consumer Goods Forum’s Golden Design Rules, including Design Rule #6, which focuses especially on flexible plastic packaging. To promote accountability, we began separately reporting in 2024 on our flexible plastic packaging that is designed for the future of recycling in full alignment with the key design rule. In addition, we are heavily investing in and partnering with a broad range of organizations to enhance and develop the critical recycling and composting infrastructure necessary for DFR.

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 Board |     | Governance |     | Director     
 Compensation |     | Beneficial 
 Ownership  |     | Executive    
 Compensation |     | Audit   
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 Proposals   |     | Other       
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ADVANCEMENT IN RECYCLABLE AND COMPOSTABLE PACKAGING Further, we are actively exploring alternative materials to plastic in support of our goal to reduce the use of virgin plastic across our portfolio by 20% by 2030 (announced in 2023). We are taking three key actions to drive this ambition: (1) reducing the use of virgin plastic in our packaging, (2) increasing the use of recycled content, and (3) exploring alternatives to plastic. This builds on our