- Resources
- Trends & Insights
MAGGI Professional Working Towards A Waste Free Future
MAGGI Tubs and Pails*, now with 30% recycled plastic using mass balance, certified by ISCC
*Excludes Maggi 500g paste tubs and MAGGI sauce bottles
We’re proud of this significant milestone. Our MAGGI Professional Tubs and Pails now incorporate 30% recycled plastic using a mass balance approach. This important step reflects our ongoing commitment to more sustainable packaging by reducing plastic waste. Sourcing recycled plastic is part of Nestlé's global ambition to reduce the amount of virgin plastic we use by one third by 2025.
By sourcing recycled plastic (using mass balance), we are saving over 95,000Kgs of Virgin Plastic/year. That is equivalent to more than the weight of one Airbus A320**.
ISCC Certified
MAGGI Professional Tubs and Pails,* with 30% recycled plastic are ISCC certified. The recycled material is allocated using the ISCC mass balance approach.
Founded in 2010 through a multi-stakeholder initiative, the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) is a globally applicable and leading certification system designed to enhance traceable, sustainable supply chains. ISCC certifications are widely recognised and cover recycled carbon-based materials and other categories including sustainable agricultural biomass, biogenic wastes and residues and non-biological renewable materials. The development and implementation of different certification standards is ISCC’s tool to promote its mission to bring more traceability into global markets and supply chains.
The ISCC PLUS standard, in particular, supports the transition to a circular economy and bioeconomy. This voluntary certification standard validates the sustainability characteristics of alternative feedstocks throughout the entire supply chain, from origin to end consumer.
What is mass balance?
The mass balance approach is a chain of custody method used to trace the flow of alternative feedstocks through complex value chains. During the production process, the certified feedstocks are mixed with conventional materials and the products become physically indistinguishable from those made solely from conventional feedstocks.
By using the mass balance system, companies can document and track the exact amount of alternative feedstocks used, ensuring that the quantity of alternative feedstocks allocated to the product matches the quantity sourced at the start of the production. One of the major advantages of the mass balance approach is its flexibility: companies can gradually increase the share of alternative feedstocks in the production process without altering the existing infrastructure.