Yum! Brands, Inc.
Recycled Content
Responsible Fiber Sourcing
Goal to purchase 100% of our paper-based packaging with fiber from responsibly managed forests and recycled sources by the end of 2020.
Combined
Eliminate Unfavorable Materials
2022: We will remove Styrofoam and expanded polystyrene from packaging at all KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell locations globally.
Eliminate Unfavorable Materials
Design For Recovery
Improving Recovery Infrastructure
2025: Taco Bell will make all its consumer-facing packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable, eliminate any PFAS, phthalates and BPA from its packaging, and add recycling and/or composting bins to restaurants globally where infrastructure permits.
Combined
Material Efficiency
[Taco Bell] is also in the process of reducing the number of packaging items in its portfolio while reducing the weight of packaging it purchases in a given year through design efficiencies and light-weighting.
Design For Recovery
2025: Taco Bell will make all its consumer-facing packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable, eliminate any PFAS, phthalates and BPA from its packaging, and add recycling and/or composting bins to restaurants globally where infrastructure permits.
2025: KFC will make all plastic-based, consumer-facing packaging recoverable or reusable globally.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Design, build and operate restaurants to be measurably more sustainable using green building standards to drive reductions in energy consumption, water use, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste.
Manufacturing / Operational Waste
Divert 50% of back-of-house operational waste, measured by weight, generated in our U.S. restaurants by the end of 2020.
Reduce food loss and waste 50% by 2030 in accordance with U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions.
Water Consumption
Reduce average restaurant water consumption by 10% from our 2017 baseline, by the end of 2025.
Renewable / Alternative Energy
Yum!’s corporate U.S. offices will use 100% renewable energy by the end of 2020.
Energy Consumption
Design, build and operate restaurants to be measurably more sustainable using green building standards to drive reductions in energy consumption, water use, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste.