Climate change and reducing carbon is one of the greatest challenges of our time and all businesses should play their part in reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. As such, we have committed to achieving Net Zero by 2050 – a target which has been assessed and approved by the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) net-zero process validation.

With our net zero goals in place, we’re now focused on reducing our carbon footprint. 75% of our Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relate to scope 3 from suppliers, with the majority from ingredients used to make our products and energy consumption within our franchised stores.

We’re working closely with our suppliers and franchise partners to identify opportunities to reduce our emissions, as well as supporting their own sustainability initiatives.

We’re also focused on reducing our scope 1 and 2 emissions in our owned fleet, corporate stores and our Supply Chain Centres (SCCs), using technology and innovation to target energy-efficient production across our sites, and building a smarter, greener vehicle fleet.

Our Hammersmith store is an example of a truly energy-efficient Domino’s store of the future.

Our first lower-carbon store includes energy-efficient features such as an internal heat pump to replace the gas boiler; a new oven hood that removes heat straight from the oven; and new features for the cold rooms to remove energy waste, such as automatic door closures, additional controls and thermal curtains.

All these innovations are supported by the procurement of 100% renewable energy to run our Domino’s Hammersmith store. We’ve estimated that this store would reduce carbon by 34% compared to a typical store (based on desktop analysis).

Hammersmith also makes all its deliveries via e-bike, reducing our scope 3 emissions further. This new fleet forms part of our wider corporate delivery fleet, which is now 100% electric powered.

We want to reduce our impact on the environment by recycling more, wasting less and using more sustainable materials.

We’re constantly looking for new ways to improve our packaging materials. Our packaging is made up of cardboard (93.7%) and plastic (6.4%), with minor uses of steel, aluminium and wood. We’ve created recycling solutions for most of our incoming cardboard, and use 70% recycled cardboard to manufacture our iconic pizza boxes, with the remaining 30% being Kraft, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified, and are 100% recyclable.

Our pizza boxes are now thinner for 11" and 13" pizzas, but with the same strength, so more boxes can be delivered on each crate we receive – this reduces the number of crates needed for deliveries of the boxes by 16,000 a year.

Our Supply Chain Centres are removing cardboard packaging from products transported to our stores and, in 2023, this reduced the amount of cardboard sent to stores by 70%. By engaging and collaborating with suppliers, we hope to drive a circular economy and for all cardboard that enters our supply chain centres to be turned into pizza boxes.

We have also created a new Plastics Improvement Plan, with a roadmap for removing the problem plastic in our operations by 2025.

When it comes to food waste, we work with FareShare to redistribute or repurpose our surplus food from Supply Chain Centres. We’re now working with our suppliers to ensure they too are dealing with their surplus food responsibly.