Berry Announces Sustainability Strategy
April 18 2019 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Berry Global Group, Inc. (NYSE: BERY) 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
About BerryBerry Global Group, Inc. (NYSE:BERY),
headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, is committed to its mission
of ‘Always Advancing to Protect What’s Important,’ and proudly
partners with its customers to provide them with value-added
protective solutions. The Company is a leading global supplier of a
broad range of innovative non-woven, flexible, and rigid products
used every day within consumer and industrial end markets. Berry, a
Fortune 500 company, generated $7.9 billion of sales in fiscal
2018. For additional information, visit Berry’s website at
www.berryglobal.com.
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