EVANSVILLE, Ind.--(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 Berry
Berry 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.