Our Pizza Boxes

Approximately 90% of our primary packaging volume is made up of pizza boxes. Over many years we have diligently collaborated with our key pizza box business partners to maximise recycled content in these boxes, optimise their design to minimise waste, enhance functionality and ensure a positive customer experience. Wherever local laws allow, our pizza boxes are made of 100% recycled cardboard and we encourage our customers to recycle these boxes in line with local laws. Where local laws do not allow 100% recycled cardboard, we use the maximum allowable amount of recycled materials. We also intend to use as much recycled fibres as possible. For example, in France, 100% of our pizza boxes are recyclable, and they contain between 50 to 70% of recycled fibres.

All Packaging

Apart from our Pizza Boxes we have many other primary packaging SKUs and secondary packaging items which are discarded at the store or further upstream. We are always looking for ways to lower our environmental impact by either reducing the packaging needed in the first place or optimising the packaging we do have to be sustainable and circular focussed.

An example of an initiative tackling our packaging waste upstream is our ‘Less is More’ project in France. The initiative was designed to reduce packaging in supply chain centres and upstream with suppliers by replacing with bulk formats or returnable crates. This project in France alone has allowed us to reduce the equivalent paper consumption in packaging by more than 26 tonnes/year, equivalent to 3180 trees. It is now being replicated in other markets and always a consideration when designing new products or changing existing packaging.

Domino’s is working to phase out single-use plastics. In many markets in which we operate, this is consistent with local laws. In Australia we do not offer plastic bags and in Europe only paper straws are available. In Australia and New Zealand, we use Eco thick shake straws, which are oxo-biodegradable. This change was introduced from 1 July 2019 and ensures the straws break down in 18 months, compared to more than 30 years for regular plastic straws.

We also have implemented in-store recycling bins for customers to use in stores in multiple countries.

We do not use any substances in our packaging such as softeners, semicarbazide, epoxidised soybean oil or migrated mineral oils.

Prohibited in cardboard packaging :

• Perfluorinated compounds

• Cadmium

No Glass packaging is allowed in our stores.

Prohibited in plastic packaging:

• Polyvinyl chloride

• Melamine

• Styrene monomer

• Acetaldehyde

• Bisphenol A

• Nano particles 

Our Partnerships

We recognise sustainable packaging is not our core expertise and therefore we must rely on and collaborate with our business partners and industry experts to find the best solutions to reduce our impact and waste. There are many examples in all of our markets of these sustainable collaborations, however one particularly innovative initiative was with one of our main beverage suppliers CCEP (Coca-Cola Europacific Partners) designed to sort and recycle waste. We are not only sorting waste (cardboard, plastic, cans) correctly but also giving packaging waste a second life. For example, when aluminium cans are sorted into the correct recycling container, they can be repurposed into an electric bike.