Berry Announces Sustainability Strategy

Berry Global Group, Inc. is proud to announce its sustainability strategy through a Company initiative named Impact 2025. As part of the initiative, Berry will focus on further increasing the positive impact it has through their products, performance, and partners with a long-term plan for the year of 2025. The Company aims to support their broader sustainability efforts by highlighting the following areas:

Products: minimize product impacts

Optimize Design

• Lightweight products
• Design 100 percent of packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable

Sustainable Sourcing

• Increase recycled content
• Encourage the development of renewable materials

Performance: minimize operational impacts (normalized for production)

Climate Change

• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2025 versus the Company’s 2016 baseline

Continuous Improvement

• Reduce landfill waste 5 percent per year
• Reduce energy and water consumption 1 percent per year

Operation Clean Sweep^® (OCS)

• Prevent resin loss through OCS
• Implement OCS at acquisition sites within the first year

Partners: maximize positive impacts by engaging partners on key issues

End Plastic Waste

• Expand and modernize waste infrastructure to increase recovery and prevent loss of plastic into the environment
• Engage the plastics industry on OCS

Limit Global Warming

• Increase renewable energy
• Expand the use of plastic in place of alternative materials
• Promote science-based targets