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NESTLÉ Professional: Reducing Use of Virgin Plastic
MAGGI Professional Tubs and Pails*, along with NESTLÉ Docello Dessert tubs, with 30% recycled plastic, certified by ISCC.
The recycled material is allocated using the ISCC mass balance approach. This step demonstrates our ongoing commitment to reducing virgin plastic by increasing the use of recycled materials, supporting Nestlé’s global ambition to cut virgin plastic usage by one third.
*Excludes Maggi 500g paste tubs and MAGGI sauce bottles.
By sourcing recycled plastic (using mass balance), we are saving around 107 Tonnes of Virgin Plastic/year.**
**Based on 2026 forecast
ISCC Certified
MAGGI Professional Tubs and Pails*, along with NESTLÉ Docello Dessert tubs, with 30% recycled plastic, certified by ISCC. 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.