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Choose Good: Understanding our on-pack Claims
Your guide to understanding Good for You and Good for Planet claims on Nestlé packaging.

When it comes to making informed decisions as a consumer, information found on product packaging plays a significant role. For us at Nestlé Philippines, we’ve made sure to include unique characteristics about our products to help you know more about what exactly you are buying.
Here you will learn about what terms like Designed for recycling, 95% natural fiber paper straw, and Made with 100% renewable electricity mean and why they matter. Click on each term below to learn more.
What is Designed for Recycling?
Designed for Recycling means the packaging used for your product is composed of a single type of plastic (mono-material) that does not need taking apart for it to undergo recycling. However, even if the packaging material is designed to be recycled there are no available recycling facilities in the Philippines yet. Here in the Philippines, we have started to shift some of our MAGGI, MILO, NESCAFE, and COFFEE-MATE packs to mono-material, a simpler material that is designed for recycling. In supporting these brands, you too are helping shape a waste-free future.
Why is it important?
By shifting our packaging to easy-recycle materials, we continue to work towards a waste-free future together. Doing so opens the possibility of significantly reducing the amount of post-consumer waste that can leak out into our oceans and waterways with proper segregation, collection, and processing.
What else must be done to make our packaging recyclable in the Philippines?
As we continue to innovate with our packaging, there is also a need to build and improve on the plastics value chain in the country. A big gap in the Philippines is the absence of recyclers. By shifting to mono-material packaging, we are helping create a supply of ready feed stock for recycling facilities. We hope to encourage recyclers to view the Philippines as a viable country for investment with a growing demand for processors. This, in turn, can help us accelerate towards a working circular economy for the country.
What do we mean by 95% Natural Fiber Paper Straw?
Since 2020, all Nestlé Philippines Ready-to-Drink products shifted to paper straws made with 95% natural fibers from plant sources and without any inner plastic or wax lining to ensure biodegradability without the need for industrial composters. This means that, with this transition, all our straws will no longer remain as litter in the environment and will naturally degrade over a short amount of time.
What do we mean by 100% Renewable Electricity?
In the Philippines, all of Nestlé’s electricity needs are sourced from local, renewable energy sources like geothermal and hydroelectric powerplants. These energy sources generate the electricity we use for all our Philippine factories and our main office in Makati. Transitioning to these sources allows us to reduce our GHG footprint1 by avoiding the use of more traditional energy sources like coal, gas, and other fossil fuels in our operations, ultimately bringing us closer to our global 2050 Net Zero ambitions.
What’s the difference between renewable electricity and renewable energy?
While similar sounding, these two concepts do have slight differences. Renewable energy refers to the energy derived from natural sources that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed.1 When energy from these sources is used to produce electricity, we get renewable electricity. To put it simply, think of renewable energy as the raw material and renewable electricity as the final product that we, at Nestlé Philippines, use to power the production of the brands that you love.
1 https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-renewable-energy