Mondelēz 2024 Snacking Made Right Report: Waste

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NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / July 22, 2025 / Mondelez International We've been working for years to reduce the levels of waste from our operations. We continue to sharpen our focus on food waste, engaging in initiatives aiming to avoid it. Strategic ApproachClose to a third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted. That's why we're focused on key actions across our Company-owned manufacturing sites to help reduce and eliminate food waste. At Mondelēz International we have governance procedures in place that help us identify wastage hot spots and focus on the biggest losses incurred during production in our manufacturing locations globally. This enables us to create ever-better process capabilities for reduction of waste. We then apply proven Lean Six Sigma practices by using leading engineering and digital solutions. We continually track performance, enabling us to intervene quickly when corrective actions are needed. Within our manufacturing teams, we are working to identify opportunities and course correct our practices. Action Plans and ProgressDuring last year, we focused our key waste-related sustainability initiatives on making our production lines more efficient. We tracked waste trends every month, analyzing them to identify the best opportunities for reduction across our processes and geographies. In addition to our 2025 goal of reducing food waste in internal manufacturing by approximately 15% (compared to our 2018 baseline) and individual goals across our regions, our businesses and sites keep us focused on continued improvement in areas like waste generated, waste treated and waste to landfill. While our primary focus is on food waste, we also analyzed our waste management throughout the year to identify and act on major opportunities. In 2024, this approach drove down food waste at our manufacturing sites by about (30)% well ahead of our 2025 goal of approximately 15%.(1) We also delivered about a (47)% reduction in food waste from distribution, progressing to meet our 2025 goal (against our 2018 baseline).(2) For instance, during 2024 our Claremont plant in Australia achieved an outstanding performance in food waste reduction with multiple improvements in the production lines, such as optimization of the feedstock, segregation, tagging for re-work, automation of manual work and digitalization of waste-t...

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