ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Domino's
(NYSE: DPZ), the largest pizza company in the world based on
global retail sales, wants to see customers recycle their
pizza boxes. Today, Domino's and its primary box supplier,
WestRock, are launching recycling.dominos.com – a website to share
the facts about pizza box recycling. The website is a hub of
information on pizza box recycling, including instructions on how
to recycle pizza boxes, and a guide for what to do if a customer's
community does not accept pizza boxes for recycling.
Contrary to popular belief, pizza boxes are recyclable, even if
they have some grease on them. To reduce confusion and
encourage Americans to recycle their pizza boxes, WestRock
conducted a research study that evaluated the impact of typical
amounts of grease and residual cheese. The study was reviewed by
member companies of the American Forest & Paper Association. It
concluded that the presence of typical amounts of grease and
residual cheese does not affect the quality of finished corrugated
product containing expected levels of recovered fibers.
"Because nearly everything that leaves a Domino's store leaves
in a corrugated box, we know we have an opportunity to make a
difference when it comes to packaging and recycling," said
Tim McIntyre, Domino's executive
vice president of communications. "Our goal is that our customers
will set aside any misconceptions they have around the
recyclability of pizza boxes, read the facts and put their empty
box in the recycling bin – or call their municipality and ask them
to add pizza boxes to their collection."
A total of 73% of the U.S. population is estimated to have
recycling programs available for pizza boxes, according to a
Resource Recycling Systems access study commissioned by WestRock in
fall 2019. While 27% of the population is served by programs with
explicit acceptance of pizza boxes, 46% of the population has
access to programs that imply, but don't say specifically, that
they accept pizza boxes. The remainder are either unclear or say
they cannot take pizza boxes.
Domino's and WestRock are both members of The Recycling
Partnership – a nonprofit dedicated to improving accessibility to
and quality of recycling. Domino's, WestRock and a second box
supplier partnered to fund The Recycling Partnership's development
of materials for municipalities to update their recycling programs
to include pizza boxes. Consumers can find a link to The Recycling
Partnership's toolkit on recycling.dominos.com, which they can send
to their local recycling programs to encourage them to accept pizza
boxes into their system.
Together with WestRock earlier in 2020, Domino's increased the
recycled content in its pizza boxes from 40% to 72%. Domino's
recognizes the importance of not just recycling and using recycled
content, but also the importance of planting trees. Domino's is
partnering with One Tree Planted to plant 50,000 trees across
North America. Customers are
invited to vote on social media for the region(s) where trees will
be planted.
About Domino's Pizza®
Founded in 1960,
Domino's Pizza is the largest pizza company in the world based on
retail sales, with a significant business in both delivery and
carryout pizza. It ranks among the world's top public restaurant
brands with a global enterprise of more than 17,100 stores in over
90 markets. Domino's had global retail sales of over $14.3 billion in 2019, with over $7.0 billion in the U.S. and nearly $7.3 billion internationally. In the second
quarter of 2020, Domino's had global retail sales of over
$3.4 billion, with over $1.9 billion in the U.S. and over $1.5 billion internationally. Its system is
comprised of independent franchise owners who accounted for 98% of
Domino's stores as of the end of the second quarter of 2020.
Emphasis on technology innovation helped Domino's achieve more than
half of all global retail sales in 2019 from digital channels,
primarily online ordering and mobile applications. In the U.S.,
Domino's generates over 65% of sales via digital channels and has
developed several innovative ordering platforms, including those
developed for Google Home, Facebook Messenger, Apple Watch, Amazon
Echo and Twitter – as well as Domino's Hotspots®, an ordering
platform featuring over 200,000 unique, non-traditional delivery
locations. In June 2019, through an
announced partnership with Nuro, Domino's furthered its exploration
and testing of autonomous pizza delivery. In late 2019, Domino's
opened the Domino's Innovation Garage adjacent to its headquarters
in Ann Arbor, Michigan to fuel
continued technology and operational innovation – while also
launching its GPS technology, allowing customers to follow the
progress of the delivery driver from store to doorstep. In
mid-2020, Domino's launched a brand new way to order contactless
carryout nationwide via Domino's Carside Delivery™,
which customers can choose when placing a prepaid online order.
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About WestRock
WestRock (NYSE: WRK) partners with our
customers to provide differentiated paper and packaging solutions
that help them win in the marketplace. WestRock's team members
support customers around the world from locations spanning
North America, South America, Europe, Asia
and Australia. Learn more at
www.westrock.com.
About The Recycling Partnership
The Recycling
Partnership is a national nonprofit organization that leverages
corporate partner funding to transform recycling for good in
states, cities, and communities nationwide. As the only
organization in the country that engages the full recycling supply
chain from the corporations that manufacture products and packaging
to local governments charged with recycling to industry end
markets, haulers, material recovery facilities, and converters.
Since 2014, the nonprofit change agent diverted 230 million pounds
of new recyclables from landfills, saved 465 million gallons of
water, avoided more than 250,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases,
and drove significant reductions in targeted contamination rates.
Learn more at www.recyclingpartnership.org
About One Tree Planted
One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the
environment by planting trees. Their projects span the globe and
are done in partnership with local communities and knowledgeable
experts to create an impact for nature, people, and wildlife.
Reforestation helps to rebuild forests after fires and floods,
provide jobs for social impact, and restore biodiversity. Many
projects have overlapping objectives, creating a combination of
benefits that contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Learn more at onetreeplanted.org.
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