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Berry announces sustainability strategy

Evansville, IN, United States

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.

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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

www.berryglobal.com

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