The Company's Impact Report 2020
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IMPACT REPORT 2020 Contents A Message from Our CEO As we introduce our second annual Impact Report, we are pleased about our progress against the corporate commitments we made and our teams’ contributions toward supporting the world with products providing food safety, health, hygiene, and wellness during a very trying time. 01 03 Our Global Response What Drives Us Social In spite of the global pandemic, our 47,000 team members around the world focused on our essential business for our customers and communities. We What Drives Us .........................................................02 Embracing Social Responsibility ...........................16 utilized our vast resources to meet unprecedented 2020 Sustainable Highlights ................................03 Employee Development ......................................... 17 demand and increased our capacity for essential Highlights ...................................................................04 Certified Plastics Ambassadors ............................18 products. We look forward to recovery, and I’ve never About Berry ................................................................05 Diversity & Inclusion .................................................19 been more confident of our company and our people. Safety ..........................................................................20 COVID-19 Relief .........................................................21 Maintaining Our Focus on Safety With safety as our number one value, we relentlessly 02 pursue the highest levels of protection for our Environmental employees. In spite of the challenging environment, we achieved a recordable incident rate of 1.04, one quarter of the industry average. Our people are our greatest Making a Positive Impact .......................................06 asset to creating customer value, and we will continue Our Customer Promise Power of Plastics ...................................................... 07 to prioritize safety in everything we do. 04 At Berry, our promise to deliver innovations for the world Our Operations .........................................................09 Governance Accelerating the Transition toward Circularity spans across customers large or small, global or local, Products It is well known that to achieve a circular economy, leveraging our expert design for exceptional end-user Bhoomi Bootle .......................................................11 companies must work across their value chain to experiences. We remain committed to investments in our Governance Overview ............................................23 Empress Light Jar ..................................................11 give our natural resources multiple lives. At Berry, pipeline of innovation and to maximizing the benefits of Closing Message ......................................................24 X-Enviro Laminate ................................................12 we take our corporate responsibility as a global our scale to weather through volatility. Board of Directors ....................................................25 Detectable Black Packaging ............................12 leader in innovative packaging and engineered Forward-Looking Statements ................................25 As 2020 proved, the focus on our people, our customers, Plaswood rainforest project ..............................12 products seriously, knowing that plastics are critical to achieving the global vision of a net-zero economy. and the environment drove our success against our Impact Infinity Quartz Range ..........................................12 We work in harmony with our customers to help 2025 goals and beyond. Continued collaboration across Tub Weight Reduction ........................................12 achieve their sustainability goals. All the while, we are the value chain, while elevating our expertise, will pave Tethered Closures ................................................12 leveraging our own research and development data the way to solve whatever challenge comes next. PCR Ambiente Deo 2000 .................................. 13 to inform investments and accelerate the transition SuperLock® Pot ..................................................... 13 05 toward circularity. PE Tubes ................................................................. 13 Conagra’s Swiss Miss Container & Lid ........... 13 Appendix 25% PCR closures & jars .................................... 13 Thomas E. Salmon Spice World closure ............................................ 13 ESG Appendix ...........................................................26 Chairman & CEO Partnering through Education ................................ 14 Zero Safety Incidents Site List ..............................40 Berry Global, Inc. Environmental Partners ...........................................15 List of Subsidiaries .................................................... 41 GHG Emissions Assurance Statement ............... 44 Berry Impact Report 2020 | 02 What Drives Us IMPACT 2025 Our Alignment While our Impact 2025 goals remain steadfast, we are increasing our global sustainability commitment by aligning to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A More Sustainable Future adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for As a global leader, we are driven for more. More for our environment, employees, and customers. people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 SDGs, which are an urgent call for action by As announced in 2019, our sustainability strategy, Impact 2025, focuses on making a positive impact all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other through our products, performance, and partners. We acknowledge that environmental sustainability deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur is not achieved through one initiative and we are addressing the challenges through a multi-faceted economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.* Alignment approach across the value chain. This is the second year Berry Global has reported on its sustainability to these goals represents the commitment to extending our reach in global impact. progress. The primary audiences of this report include customers, investors, suppliers, partners, and *Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Sustainable Development; https://sdgs.un.org/goals employees as a compliment to our corporate performance. Our corporate sustainability strategy focuses on three priorities: Products, Performance, and Partners. Products Performance Partners Engage partners, including employees, suppliers, Minimize product impacts Minimize operational impacts Products customers, and communities on key issues Our strategic focus begins with the products' we develop for our customers and working toward minimizing each products environmental impact. This means creating products that are more Optimize Design Climate Change Employees recyclable and are optimized for sustainability. With 285 facilities, 65 conversion processes, and 35 • 100% reusable, recyclable, or • Reduce Scope 1+2 emissions 25% • Injury free workplace (2021 TRIR < 1.00) product lines, we have unmatched global capabilities to develop complete product solutions for our compostable packaging by 2025 by 2025 vs. our 2016 baseline* • Increase focus on employee customers. In addition, we are not only making our products more recyclable, we are an industry • Minimize carbon footprint • Promote science-based targets experience, including diversity leader of post-consumer resin (PCR) usage. • Lightweight products • Increase renewable energy YOY and inclusion • Expand training and development Sustainable Materials Continuous Improvement opportunities Performance • Increase use of circular plastics • Reduce landfill waste We strive to minimize our operational impacts on the environment. Through reducing greenhouse gas • 10% recycled content across our 5% per year* Stakeholders emission to continually lowering our resource use, we are continuously improving our facilities. In packaging by 2025 • Reduce energy and water • Respect human rights in our policies 2018, we set a science-based greenhouse gas reduction target to reduce Scope 1+2 GHG emissions consumption 1% per year* and supply chains • Conduct business ethically intensity 25% versus a 2016 baseline. This is in line with the Paris Agreement to limit global warming Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS) to 2°C. In 2020, we announced that we were ahead of schedule in achieving our goal, having reduced • Prevent resin loss through OCS End Plastic Waste Locally & Globally emissions intensity 14% vs. our 2016 baseline. • Implement OCS at acquisition • Expand and modernize waste sites within the first year infrastructure to increase recovery and prevent loss of plastic to the Partners *Normalized for production environment This year, we are highlighting the importance of our employees, suppliers, customers, and • Engage the plastics industry on OCS communities as we surround key issues. Our employees are the heartbeat of our organization. It is through our teams that we are able to innovate, adapt, and ultimately thrive. As a global organization, we are pledging to harness our strengths in diversity, not only in ideas, but in race, ethnicity,