Circular economy

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Packaging solutions

Our products’ packaging has the primary function of protecting food, preserving its properties, ensuring shelf life, and offering the best consumer experience. Our packaging’s life cycle is a relevant factor in minimizing environmental impact. Through our Sustainable Packaging Program, we incorporate circular economy considerations from the design stage, selecting recycled and biodegradable materials, or those that can be recovered. At the same time, we steadily reduce the amount of plastic in packaging. The program involves a global team that works together with the Research and Development, Innovation, Quality, Technology, and Marketing areas, as well as with suppliers, academia, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

In 2022, we avoided the use of more than 1,360 tons of virgin plastic, reaching a cumulative amount of over 7,880 tons averted since 2019. Additionally, Sigma Europe has set a goal to reduce 400 tons of virgin plastic during 2023.

Sigma’s Sustainable Packaging Program has the following action lines:

100% recyclable plastic packaging

Packaging solutions plastic as a result thickness, layers, or

Use materials

Simpler packaging with the right materials make recycling easier.

Use recoverable and recyclable materials

SUSTAINABLE

Biodegradable packaging

Use biodegradable material

Packaging with components in a five years.

solutions that use less result of reductions in or components.