04.18.19
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
Performance: minimize operational impacts (normalized for production)
Climate Change
Continuous Improvement
Operation Clean Sweep (OCS)
Partners: maximize positive impacts by engaging partners on key issues
End Plastic Waste
Limit Global Warming
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
Performance: minimize operational impacts (normalized for production)
Climate Change
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2025 versus the company’s 2016 baseline
Continuous Improvement
- Reduce landfill waste 5% per year
- Reduce energy and water consumption 1% 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
