Retail waste management has been a perennial problem that haunts the retail industry. Not only does retail waste cost them money but it also causes serious environmental problems.
The most common types of retail waste include waste from packaging such as cardboard, plastics, papers, fillers, and general waste from customers. Discarded packaging and shipping materials are just the beginning of retail waste disposal problems. Returning items to the retailer or manufacturer produces a lot of waste since the original packaging just goes back to its origin.
Yum! Brands, Inc. is a global quick-service restaurant company. The company develops, operates, franchises, and licenses a global system of both traditional and non-traditional quick-service restaurants. It operates restaurants under the brand name KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill brands.
Total waste generated by Yum Brands was 2,532 thousand tonnes in 2021, a decrease of 3%. Waste generation was related to organic waste, corrugated cardboard, paper packaging, mixed plastics, used cooking oil, and others. Organic waste was the major component of total waste generated by the company with 1,012 thousand tonnes of organic waste in 2021. The company did not generate hazardous waste during the same period.
Yum Brands disposed of 285 thousand tonnes of waste of which 89% were recycled and 11% were converted into biofuel.
Yum Brands aims to reduce unnecessary plastics across all its brands and reduce virgin plastic content by 10% across all its brands by 2025. The company will divert 50% of its operational waste generated in US restaurants by 2025. The restaurant company will reduce food waste by 50% in the US by 2030.
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