Berry Global Group, Inc. announced its sustainability strategy through a company initiative named Impact 2025. As part of the initiative, Berry will focus on 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 its 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
Berry Global Group, Inc., headquartered in Evansville, Ind. is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative non-woven, flexible, and rigid products. For additional information, visit www.berryglobal.com.
