About 98% or more of packaging designed to be recyclable by 2030
Latest reported: 96% (2025)
From the source“Approximately 98% or more of our packaging designed to be recyclable by 2030”
Food
Mondelēz International packaging profile
Mondelēz International makes snacks such as biscuits, chocolate and gum. In 2025 it reports 96% of its packaging designed to be recyclable, an 11.5% cut in overall virgin plastic versus 2020 and 3.7% recycled plastic content.
Company profile
At a glance
- Legal name
- Mondelēz International, Inc.1
- Incorporated
- Virginia, USA1
- Headquarters
- 905 West Fulton Market, Suite 200, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA1
- Listing
- Nasdaq Global Select Market: MDLZ1
- Financial year end
- 31 December1
- Net revenues
- USD 38,537 million (2025); USD 36,441 million (2024)2
- Organic sales growth
- 4.3% (2025)2
- Employees
- 91,000 (31 Dec 2025)1
- Markets
- Products sold in over 150 countries; operations in approximately 80 countries; 145 principal manufacturing facilities in 49 countries1
- Website
- mondelezinternational.com4
- Note
- The 10-K says the company buys and uses significant quantities of packaging materials and cites EPR (EU, India, Vietnam, certain U.S. states), single-use plastic bans and plastic taxes (Europe, Southeast Asia) and packaging taxes among regulations affecting the business.1
- End uses
- Food
Markets
Geographic footprint
- Europe is the largest segment (USD 15,027 million of 38,537 million in 2025), followed by North America, AMEA and Latin America. Emerging markets generated USD 15,364 million (about 40%).2
As the company reports it
Packaging profile
Formats and materials the company itself reports using, in its own reporting. No pack specifications, volumes or supplier names beyond what it has published.
| Format | Material | What the company reports |
|---|---|---|
| All packaging | Mixed | 96% of packaging designed to be recyclable (2025)4 |
| Plastic packaging (flexible and rigid) | Plastic | Recycled plastic content 3.7% of plastic packaging (2025); overall virgin plastic down 11.5% and rigid virgin plastic down 8.4% vs 20204 |
| Flexible wrapper | Flexible plastic, chemically recycled (mass balance) | Cadbury sharing bars made and sold in the UK and Ireland wrapped in flexible plastic with 80% certified recycled content (mass balance, ISCC, advanced recycling); about 300 million bars and about 600 t of recycled plastic a year7 |
| Flexible wrapper | Flexible plastic, chemically recycled | Aim to use up to 50% recycled plastic in Cadbury blocks, bars and pieces wrappers; Australia uses a technology converting plastic waste into recycled oil for food-contact flexible film6 |
Reporting scope: Progress figures on the goals page are referenced to the 2025 Snacking Made Right Report, which could not be fetched (robots disallowed), so page numbers and scope notes are not available.4
Packaging suppliers
- Amcor: 80% recycled-content Cadbury sharing bar wrapper (AmPrima and AmFiniti technologies), announced by Amcor; the Mondelez UK release refers to the partnership announced 6 November 2024 25 Jun 20258
Industry and recycling partners named by the company5
The register
Packaging targets and progress
Targets and progress are taken from each company's own published reports, with a quote and a link on its page. Status shows met or missed only where the company has reported the result. No contacts, purchase volumes, supplier relationships or pack specifications are listed.
5% reduction in overall virgin plastic by 2025 vs 2020
Latest reported: 11.5% reduction vs 2020 (2025)
From the source“5% reduction in overall virgin plastic by 2025 (vs. 2020)”
25% reduction in rigid virgin plastic by 2030 vs 2020
Latest reported: 8.4% reduction vs 2020 (2025)
From the source“25% reduction in rigid virgin plastic by 2030 (vs. 2020)”
5% recycled plastic content by 2030
Latest reported: 3.7% (2025)
From the source“5% recycled plastic content by 2030”
Commitments
Commitments and baselines
Every packaging and supply-chain commitment the company has published, with its baseline and the latest progress it reports. Status says met or missed only where the company states the result.
| Commitment | By | Baseline | Latest reported | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snacking Made RightApproximately 98% or more of packaging designed to be recyclable by 20304 | 2030 | – | 96% (2025) | In progress |
| Snacking Made Right5% reduction in overall virgin plastic by 2025 vs 20204 | 2025 | 2020 | 11.5% reduction (2025) | Met |
| Snacking Made Right25% reduction in rigid virgin plastic by 2030 vs 20204 | 2030 | 2020 | 8.4% reduction (2025) | In progress |
| Snacking Made Right5% recycled plastic content by 20304 | 2030 | – | 3.7% (2025) | In progress |
| Brand aim (Cadbury)Use up to 50% recycled plastic in Cadbury blocks, bars and pieces wrappers (no year stated)6 | – | UK and Ireland sharing bars moved to 80% recycled content (mass balance) during 2025 | In progress |
Initiatives and pacts the company names
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation New Plastics Economy Global Commitment (joined 2020, reports annually)6 as of 13 Oct 2026
- Consumer Goods Forum Plastic Waste Coalition of Action (co-chair of flexible plastic packaging taskforce)6 as of 13 Oct 2026
- Circular Action Alliance (founding member, US EPR implementation)6 as of 13 Oct 2026
- US Flexible Film Initiative (founding member); CEFLEX; The Flexible Plastic Fund5 as of 13 Oct 2026
Last 24 months
Recent packaging developments
FY2025 10-K flags EPR, single-use plastic bans, plastic taxes and packaging taxes as regulations affecting the business.1
Amcor describes its collaboration with Mondelez on the 80% recycled-content Cadbury wrapper using its AmPrima and AmFiniti technologies.8
Cadbury sharing bars made and sold in the UK and Ireland switch to wrappers with 80% certified recycled plastic (mass balance, advanced recycling), covering about 300 million bars and about 600 t of recycled plastic a year by end of 2025.7
2024 Snacking Made Right Report: approximately 96% of packaging designed to be recyclable.9
SPI analysis
Regulatory exposure
SPI analysis Our reading of the sourced facts above. Not company-reported, not legal advice.
Basis: Presence is taken from Exhibit 213, which lists subsidiaries in all 24 national tracker jurisdictions, and from the 10-K (sales in over 150 countries). Rule IDs are from the SPI Regulation Tracker; applicability is SPI's reading for biscuits, chocolate, gum and candy in mostly flexible plastic, paperboard and some rigid plastic, not legal advice. Beverage deposit rules are not applied because the beverage business (powdered drinks) does not use deposit-bearing containers as far as the sources show.
Plastic taxes: UK Plastic Packaging Tax (PR-GB-001) and Spain's non-reusable plastic packaging tax (PR-ES-001) apply to plastic packaging below 30% recycled content; with 3.7% recycled content overall, most Mondelez plastic packaging would be taxable except lines such as the UK Cadbury wrappers. The 10-K itself flags plastic and packaging taxes as a risk1. The EU plastic own resource (PR-EU-017) is paid by Member States.
SPI analysis
What this means for packaging suppliers
SPI analysis Our reading of the sourced facts above. Not company-reported, not legal advice.
Mondelez already reports 96% of packaging designed to be recyclable and beat its 2025 overall virgin plastic goal, so the open demand is in recycled content and rigid plastic. Its 2030 goals are modest (5% recycled plastic content overall, 3.7% in 2025; 25% less rigid virgin plastic vs 2020, 8.4% so far), but brand-level moves are much larger: Cadbury wrappers in the UK and Ireland now carry 80% recycled content through mass balance and advanced recycling, made with Amcor, and Cadbury aims for up to 50% in its wrappers more widely. That points to demand for food-grade chemically recycled flexible film with ISCC certification, recyclable mono-material wrappers that meet PPWR design rules, and lighter or alternative rigid formats such as trays and tubs. The company's weight in US EPR (founding member of Circular Action Alliance) and in flexible film collection initiatives means suppliers that can prove recyclability in store-drop or kerbside streams will have an advantage. Amcor is the only supplier relationship found publicly; this describes demand, not who supplies Mondelez.
Limits
Data gaps
What the sources reviewed do not show, or what we could not confirm. Know something we have missed? Tell the SPI team and we will check it.
- The 2025 Snacking Made Right Report PDF could not be fetched (robots disallowed), so page numbers, scope notes and packaging tonnage are missing.
- Category percentage split of net revenues not read from the 10-K.
- No paper or fibre certification or deforestation-free packaging target found in the pages reviewed.
- Plastics Pact memberships and Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty membership not confirmed in the sources reviewed.
- The Amcor partnership release of 6 November 2024 itself was not fetched; it is referenced in the Mondelez UK release and confirmed by Amcor's own article.
- Whether the climate goal (35% end-to-end CO2e reduction by 2030 vs 2018) covers purchased packaging is not stated, so it is not listed as a commitment.
- Final 7,289 characters of the 10-K text were not read.
Evidence
Sources
- Mondelez International, Inc. – Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025Regulatory filing · published 4 Feb 2026 · consulted 13 Oct 2026
- Mondelez International – Q4 and FY 2025 results release (Form 8-K exhibit)Regulatory filing · published 3 Feb 2026 · consulted 13 Oct 2026
- Mondelez International – Exhibit 21, Subsidiaries (FY2025 10-K)Regulatory filing · published 4 Feb 2026 · consulted 13 Oct 2026
- Mondelez International – Goals and progressCompany publication · consulted 13 Oct 2026
- Mondelez International – Advancing More Sustainable PackagingCompany publication · consulted 13 Oct 2026
- Mondelez International – Packaging and Plastics (our positions)Company publication · consulted 13 Oct 2026
- Mondelez UK – Cadbury's iconic purple packaging is now using 80 percent recycled plasticCompany publication · published 16 May 2025 · consulted 13 Oct 2026
- Amcor – How Collaboration Delivered Cadbury's Highest Recycled Content Yet, with Mondelez InternationalCompany publication · published 25 Jun 2025 · consulted 13 Oct 2026
- Mondelez International – Continues Progress Against Snacking Made Right Priorities (2024 report release)Company publication · published 15 Apr 2025 · consulted 13 Oct 2026
Targets in the register above link to their own source. Facts are summarised in the SPI team's words; quotes are marked.
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