Investor Presentaiton
Ferrero Group
Sustainability Report 2022
Packaging design and the circular economy
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Introduction
Our sustainability
progress
Our reporting
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In 2022, the Ferrero Cork plant achieved ISCC
PLUS certification 15 to pilot the mass-balance
approach for recycled plastic from chemical
recycling.
The International Sustainability and Carbon
Certification (ISCC) is the system Ferrero, as
well as other companies, uses for certifying
recycled materials obtained through the
mass-balance approach. The ISCC chain-of-
custody certification approach implies that
every element along the supply chain is either
ISCC certified or ISCC licensed. The scheme
offers transparent traceability across the entire
supply chain and allows us to trace the
proportion of recycled raw materials to the
final plastic component. This allows us to
measure the proportion of recycled materials
in support of our claims.
Our first pilot in chemically recycled plastic from
mass-balance adoption in plastic packaging is
with the Tic Tac brand. Tic Tac is using 50%
recycled plastic (based on mass balance) for the
Tic Tac 200-pill box in our Cork plant.
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15. ISCC Works Towards a Sustainable World.
16. Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Flexible packaging:
The urgent actions needed to deliver circular economy
solutions.
17. Our mono-material films are in line with the Ceflex
design for circular economy guidelines (The Circular
Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) initiative
https://guidelines.ceflex.eu/resources/).
18. Figures based on January-December 2021 volumes
of K. Brioss, K. Colazione Più, K. Pan e Cioc e K. Délice.
See more info here.
Existing packaging development
and redesign
We continue to follow the evolution of sorting
and recycling infrastructure and technology, to
build in-depth knowledge and hands-on
experience about how design can make an
impact on our packaging circularity. Since
2019, we have reached some important
targets on rigid plastics as well as in flexible
packaging.
In September 2021, Ferrero Rocher launched
new eco-designed PP boxes. Once
implemented across the entire Ferrero Rocher
portfolio, the new box design will save an
estimated 10,000 tonnes of plastic.
Flexible packaging, on the other hand, is
generally linked to low recycling and high
leakage rates. These elements contribute to
classifying flexible packaging as the most
challenging market segment to address on
the journey towards a circular economy
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In this context, we contribute to the circularity
of packaging through eco-design: flexible films
were redesigned, moving from non-recyclable
multi-material to mono-material structures,
following to the most recognised design-for-
recycling guidelines¹7.
We have now designed more than 120,000 km
of flexible films to be recyclable, following this
approach. Examples are the flexible films used
for Tronky, Kinder Cards and Kinder Happy
Hippo. This enables the recycling process,
where infrastructures for collection, sorting
and recycling already exists.
We are approaching paper-based flexible
packaging, where this provides improvements
in the collection and recycling rate, as well as a
saving in virgin plastic. For instance, the Kinder
bakery range, including Kinder Délice and
Kinder Brioss in Italy, has moved to a paper-
based external wrapper. The packaging is
designed for recycling in standard paper
recycling mills and allows a yearly plastic
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