Company: KHC
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000266
Chunk: 43

Company: Kraft Heinz Co
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 43
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 seeks to meet extensive packaging regulations, cut waste, conserve natural resources, ensure food safety and quality, and satisfy consumers of our beloved brands. Our team of experts collaborates with suppliers and external packaging specialists to design better packaging that incorporates more recycled and recyclable materials into each design. We partner with a variety of leading organizations and coalitions to explore technical, end-of-life, and infrastructure solutions. We have also partnered with environmental consultancy group Lorax EPI to better understand how much of our packaging is recyclable, reusable, and compostable. Most of our packaging is made from recyclable materials, including paper, glass, rigid plastic, and metal. However, a portion of our packaging consists of multi-material plastics, such as film and flexible materials. These formats are essential in food packaging, as 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 globally.

| 2025 Proxy Statement | 95 |

| Company  
 Overview |     | Voting  
 Roadmap |     | Stockholder 
 Engagement  |     | Our   
 Board |     | Governance |     | Director     
 Compensation |     | Beneficial 
 Ownership  |     | Executive    
 Compensation |     | Audit   
 Matters |     | Stockholder 
 Proposals   |     | Other       
 Information |     | Appendix A. 
 Non-GAAP    |

We are strengthening our recyclability efforts by continually transforming our portfolio through a reduction in total packaging and the introduction of more sustainable packaging. In 2023, we announced a goal to reduce the use of virgin plastic in our global portfolio by 20% by 2030, equating to over 100 million pounds. This target involves using less plastic in our packaging, incorporating more recycled content, and exploring alternatives to plastic, thus directly addressing many of the primary concerns related to flexible plastic packaging. For example, we have already made significant progress towards this goal with the transition of Kraft Real Mayo, NotMayo, and Miracle Whip to 100% recycled content bottles and jars in the U.S. in 2024. This transition is expected to eliminate approximately 14 million pounds of virgin plastic