HelloFresh Commits to Ambitious Goal For Science-Based Emissions Reduction

HelloFresh, a global meal kit provider, released its annual 2022 Sustainability Report and announced a commitment to set science-based emissions reduction targets The global report states the company ’ s progress in further decreasing its environmental impact and introduces interim goals for reducing carbon emissions and food waste by 2025

“As a global food solutions group, we recognize the important contribution we can and must make in driving sustainable progress on climate change,” said Jeffrey Yor zyk, senior director of sustainability, HelloFresh US “By setting science-based targets, we are helping to do our part in reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to limit global warming to 1 5 degrees or less ”

The Science Based Targets initiative is a global body enabling businesses to set ambitious emissions reduction targets in line with the latest climate science and Paris Agreement goals HelloFresh will work with SBTi to develop and validate its targets before the end of 2024

In addition to setting science-based tar- gets, HelloFresh continues to make operations more energy efficient and transition to renewable energy The share of green energy consumed in HelloFresh’s distribution centers and offices in 2022 increased to 53 percent, from 50 percent in 2021 and 35 percent in 2020 since 2020

HelloFresh’s continued efforts in 2022 led to a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions from its meal kit production facilities per euro revenue compared to a 2019 baseline, which means the company almost met its ambitious goals for 2022 of a 60 percent reduction

Reducing food waste continues to be an integral part of HelloFresh's sustainability approach In 2022, more than 26 million pounds of unsold edible food was donated to charities

Compared to a 2019 baseline, the company managed to reduce the food waste sent to landfill or incineration from all of its meal-kit facilities by 42 percent, which means the company almost met its ambitious goals for 2022 of a 50 percent reduction create home-cooked meals Through the Beyond the Box program, the company contributed 12 3 million pounds of surplus food in the United States, supporting more than 20 charities across the country

With the rapid growth of the company ’ s recently acquired ready-to-eat business vertical and the substantial difference in operations compared with the meal kit business, HelloFresh has established separate environmental goals for each of these verticals:

Meal kit business:

1 Reduce the emissions from the HelloFresh Group’s meal kit production facilities by 66 percent per euro revenue from a 2019 baseline by the end of 2025

2 Reduce food waste from the HelloFresh Group’s meal kit production facilities by 52 percent per euro revenue from a 2019 baseline by the end of 2025

In the United States, HelloFresh piloted a software that optimizes energy use from refrigeration systems within its distribution centers Refrigeration is the largest consumer of electricity within its operating facilities and HelloFresh is now rolling out the software across all U S facilities HelloFresh US has also sourced renewable electricity for 100 percent of its facilities

The company ’ s social impact program within the United States, Beyond the Box, aims to change the way people eat, forever, inclusive of those facing food insecurity

The program consists of a Meals with Meanings initiative that provided 2 million free meal kits in 2022 to individuals in need, with each kit containing HelloFresh ingredients and step-by-step recipe cards to

Other businesses, represented by readyto-eat vertical:

1 Reduce the emissions from HelloFresh’s other businesses' production facilities by 30 percent per euro revenue from a 2021 baseline by the end of 2025

2 Reduce food waste from HelloFresh’s other businesses’ production facilities by 56 percent per euro revenue from a 2021 baseline by the end of 2025 GN