More variety on the plate, less impact on the planet

Efficient regenerative food systems producing more accessible and nutritious proteins

We have a responsibility to make it easier for consumers to identify the most healthy and sustainable options so they can make better choices. And ethical and sustainable choices for both human health and the health of the planet are increasingly important to consumers.

We provide many ranges of affordable products with lower fat and salt content to help people to reduce these in their diets. And we continue to research and implement the science around the role that different proteins have in a balanced diet, which feeds into our new product development.

Our targets by 2025 are to:

• Assess health and sustainability attributes of all of our proteins to provide consumers with the facts on their role in a diet that is healthy for us and the planet.
• Double sales of plant based, vegetarian and flexitarian (vegetables added to products that were previously 100% meat or fish) products compared to a 2020 baseline.

Here are some of the things we've achieved so far:

• Milestone investment in CellAg, cultured meat producer in the UK
• We have developed tools to assess environmental and nutritional impacts of ingredients for insight during new product development
• We have upskilled our colleagues on the health and sustainability of our products, to give them the capability to include health and sustainability in our commercial strategy

Developing a circular economy for packaging and actively bringing waste materials back into use across our full value chain

Our aim is to achieve circular recycling and minimising the footprint of packaging in its production and use. We achieve this through innovation, reducing the amount of packaging we use, making it easier for the consumer to recycle and by increasing the recycled content in our packaging. We also apply the same principle to the packaging used for our raw materials to ensure we are using the most sustainable packaging across our value chain.

Our targets by 2025 are to:

• Reduce the weight of our plastic packaging whilst ensuring it remains fit for purpose.
• All our retail packaging will be fully reusable, recyclable or compostable.
• Drive demand for circular tray to tray recycling and actively prioritise the use of circular material.
• Achieve a minimum of 50% average recycled content across all plastic packaging

Here are some of the things we've achieved so far:

• Tray-to-tray has been introduced at all our sites, in the majority of our European sites this includes 20% tray to tray content
• Achieved 64% recycled content in our plastic packaging
• 1,971 tonnes of plastic has been removed from our packaging since 2021
• Launch of products at Hilton Seafood UK with 30% recycled coastal plastics, removing 240 tonnes of plastic from the environment

Optimising food waste and use of packaging, energy and water across sites, supply chains, and in consumers’ homes

We want to minimise our use of resources and eliminate waste throughout our value chain, in support of UN SDG 7.2, including food and plastic waste within our own operations.

Our goals are to improve resource efficiency across our global operations and reduce waste across our full value chain.

And our target is to halve our own food waste by 2030 compared to 2019 and continue to publish food waste annually, in line with the Champions 12.3 commitment to deliver UNSDG 12.3.

Our targets by 2025 are to:

• Improve energy efficiency in our facilities by at least 10% compared to a 2020 baseline
• Improve water efficiency in our facilities by at least 10% compared to a 2020 baseline
• Halve our factory generated food waste by 2030 compared to 2019 in line with the Champions 12.3 commitment to deliver UN SDG 12.3

Here are some of the things we've achieved so far:

• 42% reduction in food waste since 2020
• 10 sites certified with a ISO50001 standard, globally regarded as best practice in energy management, where we received zero non-conformance
• 64% of our electricity is from renewable sources