A bottle of Heinz Ketchup, full of top quality ingredients, and a farmer on a tractor in a tomato field, growing sustainably.
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Good for the Planet is Good for Business

Sustainability is core to our business. We’re well on our way to reaching our 2050 goal of carbon neutrality. In fact, we’re also on track to have 100% of Heinz Ketchup tomatoes sustainably sourced by 2025. And our commitment doesn’t stop there.

OUR TOMATOES

Every bottle of Heinz Ketchup sold in Canada is produced in Mont Royal, Quebec, and by 2024, 100% of tomatoes in those bottles will be grown in Canadian soil by passionate people dedicated to growing high-quality and non-GMO tomatoes.

  1. Our products depend on quality ingredients produced through sustainable farming practices.
    Close to home

    Heinz tomato fields are all within 30 miles of our paste plants. Tomatoes are processed within 4 hours of harvesting, keeping our carbon footprint low while ensuring the highest level of freshness and flavour.

  2. We find the right ingredients, picked at the most optimal time for quality.
    The best and the rest

    95% of our Heinz tomatoes are perfectly ripe when they leave the field. To minimize waste, the less-than-perfect tomatoes get repurposed for feed and compost.

  3. Every bit of tomato that doesn’t go into our ketchup is salvaged and reutilized as feed, compost or fertilizer to grow more crops.
    Recycled seeds

    Even after we’ve strained the thick, juicy tomato pulp, the leftover skins and seeds are recycled into livestock feed for use on our farms.

  4. Sharing our expertise and learnings around the world helps everyone grow better.
    Conservation education

    We’ve created agricultural development projects that teach tomato conservation and conservation farming to farms worldwide, including Brazil, Egypt, and Spain.

A large sunny tomato field with multiple rows of plants. Our goal is to grow 100% sustainably sourced tomatoes by 2025.

Achieving 100% Sustainable Ketchup Tomatoes by 2025

Over 100 years of expertise goes into our growers guidelines. Covering practices such as soil health and water management. We know we need to grow 100% sustainably sourced ketchup tomatoes. Because irresistible taste starts with great soil.

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Wood boxes of fresh tomatoes at the Heinz research farm, where we test sustainable practices and make new tomato varieties.

Future-Proofing Our Tomatoes

At our specialist research farm we are future-proofing our unique tomatoes through testing new sustainable practices and creating new Heinz tomato varieties. We do the research so you can keep enjoying our tasty ketchup, for generations to enjoy.

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What Is Regenerative Agriculture And Why Is It Important?

We’re on a mission to care for the world’s soils. 95%* of the food we eat relies on healthy soil but our soils are at risk and could be gone in as little as a generation if we don’t act.

*The Food and Agriculture Organization

Wherever we can, we reduce and reuse in our packaging and processing.

PACKAGING & RECYCLABILITY

We’re actively innovating to make 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging and reduce our landfill intensity by 20% by 2025. In Canada, we have the ambitious goal of creating a fully circular Heinz Tomato Ketchup bottle by 2025.

Quality of water is as important to our ingredients as ingredients are to the quality of our products.

WATER USE & CONSERVATION

Water is everything at Kraft Heinz, so we’re developing smarter systems that protect, conserve and optimize with the goal of reducing water use intensity by 15% across our manufacturing facilities and 20% in high-risk watershed areas by 2025.

We test new concepts, learn and prove outcomes to implement energy savings across our business

ENERGY USE & RENEWABLES

We’re well on our way to reducing our overall energy use by 15% with a goal of procuring the majority of our electricity from renewable resources by 2025.

Recycling and diversion helps reduce waste across our business.

WASTE REDUCTION

We’re working to make less waste. Already diverting 90% of our solid waste to recycling or byproducts usage.