Sustainability

Our Journey So Far:

Maggi noodles wrapped with 90% recycled plastic using mass balance, certified by ISCC

We’re proud of this big step. Our Maggi noodles are the first noodles wrapped with recycled plastic (mass balance) in Australia in the noodles category*. First, we wrapped our noodles with 50% recycled plastic and now, with 90% recycled plastic* (mass balance).

*excludes sachets

We’re now sourcing 90% less virgin plastic to produce wrappers for our Chicken and Beef noodles, excludes sachets.

By sourcing recycled plastic (mass balance), we’re saving approx. 8,200,000m² of virgin plastic a year! That is enough to cover 750+ football fields if we laid our Maggi bags out flat!

With more to come!

We want to increase the amount of recycled plastic, and reduce the amount of virgin plastic we are sourcing, on as many Maggi noodle wrappers, as fast as possible. In 2024, we started by wrapping our Maggi 2 Minute Noodles and our Maggi Fusian Noodles with 50% recycled plastic. We are now proud to do even better, wrapping our noodles with 90% recycled plastic, starting with our Maggi 2 Minute Chicken & Beef Noodles.

Sourcing recycled plastic is part of Nestlé's global ambition to reduce the amount of virgin plastic we use by one third by 2025.

*We’re rolling out our Maggi 2 Minute Chicken & Beef noodles wrapped with 90% recycled plastic using mass balance, excluding flavour sachets for the Chicken 5pk, Chicken 12pk, Beef 5pk and Beef 12pk.

ISCC Certified

Our Maggi noodle bags with 50% and 90% 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.

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Working towards a waste free future

Our vision is that none of our packaging, including plastics, ends up in landfill, in oceans, lakes and rivers. We are working hard to deliver on this and help achieve a waste-free future.

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