Climate Changed
Ketchup Packets to Get Makeover in Kraft Heinz Recycling Push
- Company joins rivals in setting goal for improving packaging
- Heinz packets pose conundrum and need new technical solution
Heinz ketchup packets.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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The ketchup packet’s days could be numbered as Kraft Heinz Co. plans to overhaul its global packaging designs to find greener alternatives.
The Chicago-based food giant said Tuesday it will make 100 percent of its packaging globally recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. Over the next seven years, the company will partner with experts, organizations and industry coalitions to develop alternative recycled materials in its packaging.