Berry Announces Sustainability Strategy

Berry Global Group, Inc. announced 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 its products, performance and partners with a long-term plan for the year of 2025. The company aims to support its broader sustainability efforts by highlighting the following areas:

Products: minimize product impacts
Optimize Design

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

• Increase recycled content
• Encourage the development of renewable materials

• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2025 versus the company’s 2016 baseline

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

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

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

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