Sustainable Consumer Foods
Pioneering sustainable product and packaging innovation, ensuring top-quality dairy products with minimal environmental impact. Our commitment to sustainability benefits people, society, and the planet.
Pioneering sustainable product and packaging innovation, ensuring top-quality dairy products with minimal environmental impact. Our commitment to sustainability benefits people, society, and the planet.
At Kerry Dairy Ireland, we have set a target to make all our plastic packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable by the end of 2025. We work to optimise packaging design, reducing the weight of materials and eliminating materials that are difficult to recycle, while incorporating more recycled and recyclable content. We are also finding ways to use less virgin plastic and our sites use 100% recycled plastic pallets.
For our Dairy Consumer Foods products we have invested in new packaging capabilities at our sites to enable the use of innovative packaging materials that fit our recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging commitments.
Our commitment to sustainability and innovation means we continuously refine our processes to deliver the most nutritiously sustainable products to our customers and consumers. A significant portion of a product’s environmental impact can be shaped during the design phase. Therefore, our innovation process actively promotes our RD&A teams to incorporate sustainability design into their work and consider impacts throughout a product’s lifecycle in areas such as raw material selection, waste prevention, and resource utilisation
Our research shows that consumers of all ages are increasingly using their purchasing power to support sustainable and ethical brands. Consequently, many organisations are adapting their products to be more ethical and environmentally conscious. Industry efforts are concentrated on educating consumers about the impacts of their choices, utilising effective marketing and labelling to highlight the positive attributes of products. Kerry Dairy Ireland is committed to accurately quantifying and communicating the positive effects of sustainable nutrition in alignment with advertising codes of practice like the EU Green Claims Directive and the increasing scrutiny from stakeholders and consumer bodies.
Discover how we work with our 2,800 milk suppliers to ensure sustainability through regenerative agricultural practices, focusing on emission reductions, water quality, soil health, and animal welfare.
Our dairy processing facilities are optimized for reducing emissions, conserving resources, and supporting local communities while ensuring employee well-being.
At Kerry Dairy Ireland, our commitment to sustainability as at the heart of everything we do.
