We’re improving the nutritional profile of our convenient food products with more whole grains, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables to deliver fiber, plant-based proteins, vitamins and minerals. 

We’ve made significant progress on reducing added sugars in our beverages and reducing sodium and saturated fats in our convenient foods portfolio so that people can continue to enjoy our most-loved brands as part of a healthy and balanced diet. 

Clear and prominent labeling makes it easy to understand the calorie and nutritional content of foods and beverages, empowering consumers to make more informed and positive choices. 

Our portfolio advancements

PepsiCo Positive Choices prioritize nutrition and the planet

Goals & progress

Expand our portfolio to provide more consumer choice with products that are better for planet or people.

Diverse ingredients goal

Continue to provide consumers choice for every occasion by expanding our product offerings by 2025:

Sugar reduction goal

Sodium reduction goal

Saturated fats reduction goal

Approach

As we strive to offer consumers more Positive Choices for every occasion, we’re expanding our product line to include ingredients that offer greater nutritional benefits or are better for the planet, like chickpeas and other legumes, whole grains, plant-based proteins, fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds. 

We also strive to take a consistent approach to nutritional labeling throughout the world, in addition to complying with all relevant labeling laws and regulations in all markets in which our products are sold. On the front of our packaging (FOP), we are providing simplified nutrition information per portion to make it easier for consumers to quickly grasp nutrition information and make informed purchasing decisions.

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PepsiCo is reinventing how packaging is made and offering consumers more sustainable packaging solutions.

We’re transforming our product portfolio to use materials that prioritize the environment and deliver high-quality beverages and convenient foods without the need for single-use packaging.

Our efforts focus on reducing the environmental impact of our packaging by developing plastics from non-food, plant-based sources and exploring biodegradable or compostable options.

We’re also developing new business models and solutions that reduce packaging, such as drink powders and concentrates, and extending the reach of innovative reuse solutions like SodaStream and SodaStream Professional.

Our packaging innovations

PepsiCo is developing ways to reduce our carbon footprint and avoid waste by reinventing our packaging.

Goals & progress

Develop and deploy disruptive sustainable packaging materials and new models for convenient foods and beverages

Sustainable beverage packaging goal

By year end 2022, we intend to set a new target to expand alternative business models, including reusable and refillable bottles or containers, beverages that utilize concentrates such as fountain drinks, prepare-at-home beverages (e.g., SodaStream) or beverages sold in powder or drop form.

Sustainable foods packaging goal

Approach

We’re designing our packaging to minimize the use of unsustainable materials, switching to alternative materials that prioritize the environment, and reinventing packaging to reduce the need for single-use plastics through reusable or low- or no-packaging models. We intend to set a new quantifiable goal to reduce our use of single-use packaging for a percent of volume of our beverage portfolio by the end of 2022.

We work with external partners to develop more sustainable packaging solutions. We’re working to scale biodegradable film resins for next-generation convenient foods packaging, and with our supply chain providers to scale compostable, renewable, bio- and paper-based and reusable packaging solutions. 

In partnership with the packaging technology company Pulpex Limited, we are working to develop the world’s first sustainably sourced, fully recyclable paper bottle, made from wood pulp, and our Frito-Lay brand launched commercially compostable packaging made primarily from non-food, plant-based sources for its Off The Eaten Path Veggie Crisps snacks line.

We continue to expand our portfolio of Beyond the Bottle beverages. SodaStream is bringing PepsiCo flavor options such as Pepsi Zero Sugar, Lipton and bubly and SodaStream Professional to additional markets by end of 2022. Our SodaStream Professional business is a mobile-enabled platform that allows people to customize their water away from home, including at offices, colleges and airports, with reusable bottles. SodaStream plans to switch all its flavors from virgin plastic to alternative materials including metal and rPET, which is expected to eliminate the need for nearly 200 million virgin plastic bottles by 2025 in addition to the more than 200 billion plastic bottles the brand is expected to help consumers avoid by 2030.

In our convenient foods business, we are investing in breakthrough food packaging technology and business models that offer new ways to deliver our convenient foods, including refill-on-the-go bulk dispensing models. For example, in 2020, in partnership with UK retailer, Asda, we launched a trial to reduce plastics and explore refillable options in their Sustainability Store.

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We're using the scale of our iconic, globally recognized brands to inspire people to make positive choices for our communities and planet.

At PepsiCo, we recognize that our brands connect with consumers and can have a positive impact on the choices they make. More and more people today are purchasing with purpose, expecting that corporations be accountable for the role and impact they have on the planet. 

Data shows that more than half of consumers expect brands to have strong purpose and give back to society, and when consumers think a brand has a strong purpose, they are 4.5 times more likely to champion the company and recommend it to friends and family.

Against that backdrop, our powerful brands are taking action — imagining and implementing steps toward a better future while aiming to deliver the Positive Choices our consumers want and amplify positive outcomes. This includes efforts to drive greater recycling, educating people about the planetary impacts of their buying choices and empowering consumers with transparent environmental labeling on our key products.

Our good partnerships

Goals & progress

Planet + People Brands goal

Our consumer brands have joined the pep+ planet + people agenda, launching initiatives around the environmental and societal causes where they can have the biggest impact:

Approach

At PepsiCo, we are listening to consumers and taking the initiative to be more purposeful wherever we can. We’re thinking about where ingredients are sourced and by whom, how much water and energy is used to make our products, how we can be more efficient and sustainable with our packaging solutions, and how our brands show up for their communities.

We know we don’t have all the answers on this journey. Partnership is the key to progress, bringing expertise, complementing our capabilities and increasing trust and credibility. We’re engaging with key partners with shared ambitions, including the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and Sustainable Brands.

We are working to develop industry-wide environmental labeling standards that let consumers know that buying a particular product will help build a more sustainable food system – from the way the ingredients were grown, to the way it was made, to the way it was designed to be consumed.

We’re proud that our brands are leading the charge to become sustainability leaders, from Pepsi-branded products in 11 European markets transitioning to 100% rPET bottles by the end of 2022 (which is expected to eliminate over 70,000 tonnes of conventional virgin plastic per year and reduce GHG emissions per bottle by roughly 30%) to the effort of Frito-Lay’s Off The Eaten Path to reduce GHG emissions by offering commercially compostable packaging made with 85% plant-based materials.

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