The packaging that helps protect and market our products has environmental impacts along the entire value chain. We work to balance using packaging with the lowest possible environmental impact with our need to deliver quality products and present our brands well. Our aim is to achieve 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025.

During the year, we performed an assessment of the recyclability of our primary packaging. The key takeaway was that simple (mono-material) packaging yields goods scores on the assessment. Starting in 2022, Nutreco adopted this design principle with the help of the Nutreco sustainable packaging handbook. This handbook was launched in August 2022 to guide all our packaging purchase decisions by helping us improve our packaging material while maintaining the feed quality and often reducing the overall packaging cost. The handbook optimises our packaging by encouraging a movement towards recyclability by design and minimising the usage of packaging material, and it also shares local success stories from across Nutreco. All colleagues related to packaging were invited to a launch webinar where they could ask questions about the new guidelines.