Kraft Heinz Pilots Program to Transform Plastic Packaging into Roofing Material

The Kraft Heinz Company announced the successful completion of a pilot project to demonstrate the use of roof board made from recycled flexible packaging. The test was made possible by the company’s participation in Materials Recovery For the Future (MRFF), a nonprofit research collaborative that set out to prove technical and economic feasibility to collect, sort, bale and recycle flexible plastic packaging.

The project installed roofing material made from post-consumer flexible plastic into two Kraft Heinz manufacturing plants in Beaver Dam, Wis., and in Holland, Mich. The recycled roofing materials were installed late in 2020. The materials were comprised of 4-foot by 8-foot boards; 94% of each board was made of post-consumer recycled plastic and fiber. This was an important project for Kraft Heinz because the company uses flexible plastic packaging across its product portfolio.