Sustainability Strategy & Approach

Berry’s commitment to sustainability spans from our internal operations to beyond our company walls and to every link in our value chain—as well as the communities we serve. Our Impact 2025 strategy drives us to innovate sustainable solutions for our customers while actively reducing our own environmental footprint. This serves as our strategic framework for advancing social and environmental progress across our business through three primary pillars: Products, Performance, and Partners.

Products
Products covers our efforts to minimize the impact of our products, including using more sustainable materials and optimizing design to reduce carbon footprint and improve recyclability.

Performance
Performance includes our work to minimize operational impacts, including reducing our greenhouse gas emissions in line with 1.5°C, preventing the loss of plastic from our operations to the environment, and driving operational efficiency by reducing energy, water, and landfill waste intensity.

Partners
Partners focuses how we engage with employees, customers, communities, and suppliers on issues material to our business–as well as our approach to governance.

Our approach to good governance serves as the foundation of all that we do to advance sustainability at Berry. We align these sustainability pillars with our core principles of customer focus, continuous improvement, and sustainable growth to create meaningful, lasting impact across the globe.

To create positive, lasting change and help our customers meet the growing sustainability demands of today and tomorrow, we put Berry’s sustainability efforts into practice through the lens of our customer promise, continuous improvement and responsible growth.

Customer Promise
At Berry, we collaborate with our customers around the world – whether large or small, global or local – to create packaging and protective solutions that meet performance requirements, environmental impact targets, and aesthetic needs. We are committed to helping each customer make transformative leaps toward sustainability goals and solve business challenges.

Berry’s takes a customer-centric approach to decision making and sustainability strategy. With brand owners prioritizing a circular, net-zero economy, Berry is stepping up to meet the moment. With an eye toward decoupling from fossil fuels that make virgin plastic, our customers expect Berry to help them achieve ambitious sustainability goals by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and innovating to give resources multiple lives through reuse and refill options, lightweighting, increased use of renewable and recycled content, and improved recyclability while evaluating opportunities for continuous improvement.

Continuous Improvement
After more than 47 acquisitions, Berry has developed a strong, diverse, global culture that prioritizes continuous improvement. Rather than building our 240+ manufacturing sites from green fields, we have worked to integrate the mosaic of acquisitions and approaches. We listen to each other and outside experts, and continually leverage best practices at individual sites across our entire global footprint.

With safety always in focus, we push the limits of innovation for our customers with new, sustainable packaging solutions and educate on advances in material science and manufacturing. However, continuous improvement goes beyond designing for circularity. To support our role as an industry leader and vision to be an employer of choice, we are improving our employee experience to foster an environment where differences are acknowledged, celebrated, and used to drive growth and affect positive change. We also evaluate our governance mechanisms to ensure we are prioritizing investments, improvements, and sustainability efforts that matter most to our company.

Responsible Growth
We take our role as a responsible corporate citizen seriously – throughout our company, across our value chains, and in the communities in which we operate. Our sustainability efforts help our customers minimize risk and meet ambitious sustainability goals, while creating long-term stakeholder value by advancing a circular, net-zero economy through Berry’s industry leadership position.

Responsible growth touches all the areas of sustainability. To grow responsibly, we must respect the environment and preserve our natural resources for future generations. We also must respect people, ensuring human rights both in our operations as well as our supply chains. This goes even further for our employees, whom we must nurture through talent development in a safe workplace with an inclusive culture. And we must act ethically, including proper governance to ensure the things we expect to happen, do happen.

As one of the largest plastic converters in the world, we have both the opportunity and the obligation to drive the industry forward, and we are embracing that opportunity. Our sustainability commitments demonstrate our progress and dedication to act for people and the planet.