Elevate Your Sustainability Strategy with the Right Packaging. Introduction.

As the need for sustainability becomes more urgent, brands are encouraged to intensify their collaboration with suppliers and retailers to share knowledge and define standards for sustainability. With most brands defining their sustainability targets and ambitions, partnerships are a game-changer in today’s food and beverage industry.

The need for sustainability is reflected by growing consumer demand, with 88%1 of consumers saying that if a brand has environmentally-sound packaging, they are more likely to consider that brand, while 91% of consumers look for environmental logos on the products they buy when shopping .

“In the last three years – with all of the movement around climate change, biodiversity and circularity – businesses see sustainability credentials as a license to operate and grow in the food and beverage industry” – Francesca Priora, Global Collection Programmes Director at . Why Collaborate How our Portfolio can Enhance Your At Tetra Pak, we see collaboration as the cornerstone of success. It allows us – as a packaging Sustainability Strategy company – to transform to transform the sustainably sourced materials we source into into sustainable Tetra Pak offers a wide portfolio of solutions. But there is so much more packaging, mainly made from plant-based involved in the collaboration process; together with materials, that can help our customers reduce our customers, we drive collection and their environmental footprint and meet consumer programs to get more and more used beverage expectations in terms of sustainability. to be recycling, so that the useful raw materials can be used to give life to new products.

How We Collaborate

Tetra Pak collaboration with customers covers a wide spectrum. One example would be the journey (or process) to make sure packaging is recycled, we include customers in research, development and testing of new products, scaling up collection and recycling in the markets where they operate and working with them in global and regional industry initiatives.

With our global network, pool of research information and in-house experts, we help brands not only anticipate and meet legal requirements, but also build a sustainability strategy that withstands the test of time and earn the trust of their consumers.

003 Tetra Pak Packaging Solutions – a Sustainable Environmental Choice.

Tetra Pak offers a wide portfolio of sustainable carton packaging, mainly made from plant-based materials, recyclable, responsibly sourced, reducing their climate footprint. Here are just a few examples: Tetra Rex® 1L Base Plant-based Package, with Tetra Pak® Craft Packaging Material Effect

Already six years ago we pioneered the industry by launching a beverage package entirely made from plants. We are the only ones offering this ’s first solution in the market.

This package for chilled products combines plant-based , a plant-based cap and Tetra Pak Craft packaging material for a more natural look and feel, of bare with wood fibres.

Key product features:

• Fully made from plant-based materials (paperboard and sugarcane plastic)

• No fossil plastic

• 60-80% less plastic when switching from plastic

• FSC™-certified, guaranteeing the paperboard is sourced from responsibly managed forests and other controlled sources

• Bonsucro-certified, which means the sugarcane plastic in our packs if fully traceable through the certification.

• Recyclable

004 ® Aseptic 1000 Edge Package with Plant-based LightCap™ 30 and the Tetra Pak® Craft Packaging Material Effect

This ambient solution visually enhances the beverage carton’s environmental credentials.

Key product features:

• 89% plant-based material (paperboard and sugarcane plastic)

• Benefit from the removal of clay coating on the paperboard, which gives the package the natural look

• Carries the Bonsucro , certifying the responsible sourcing of sugarcane

• Benefit from having up to 23% reduction in CO2 emissions compared to a standard Tetra Brik® Aseptic package

• Utilise a paperboard from FSC™-certified and other controlled souces

• Meet consumers’ demand by delivering a package that can be recycled

• Utilise a Plant-based LightCap™ 30 (made from polymers derived from sugarcane)

• Recyclable

005 Tetra Prisma® Aseptic 1000 Square Package with Plant-based HeliCap™ 27 and the Tetra Pak® Craft Packaging Material Effect

This ambient solution combines plant-based , a plant-based cap and the Tetra Pak® Craft packaging material to visually enhance a beverage carton’s environmental credentials.

Key product features:

• Benefit from the removal of clay coating on the paperboard that gives the package the natural look of bare paperboard with wood fibres

• Optimised structure delivering lighter overall package weight vs a standard Tetra Prisma® Aseptic package

• Combine Tetra Pak® Craft packaging material effect with polymers derived from sugarcane to further strengthen the package environmental profile

• Carry the Bonsucro label, certifying the responsbile sourcing of sugarcane

• Utilise paperboard from FSC™-certified and other controlled sources

• Meet consumers’ demand by delivering a package that can be recycled

001006 The Value of Third-Party Certifications.

Forest Stewardship Council™ (FSC™) Bonsucro

All the paperboard used to produce our carton Tetra Pak® packages are mostly made of paperboard packages comes from FSC™ Forest Stewardship from trees, with only thin layers of aluminum and Council™ certified forests and other controlled sources. plastic that protect the contents.

FSC is a credible universal standard and we actively We’re not only reducing our use of fossil plastic, but encourage our customers to display the logo on their we’re also using more and more plant-based plastic packages. Tetra Pak was the first in our industry to made from sugarcane, both in the layers of our packs introduce this certification in 2007, and since then, we and for the caps. have produced over 500 billion FSC-labelled packs. Just like trees, sugarcane absorbs CO₂ from the air FSC makes sure forests are managed in a way that as it grows. So, using it to make plastic - instead of secures their future, preserves wildlife and benefits using fossil resources - reduces climate impact. the lives of local people and workers. New trees replace the ones that are cut, and harvested areas Last year, Tetra Pak became the first company in the are allowed to regenerate. This process makes sure and processing industry to source the store of atmospheric carbon in the forest is not plant-based plastic responsibly using the Bonsucro diminished. Chain of Custody Standard. And since March 2020, all the plant-based plastic we use is Bonsucro-certified. Today, all our packages use FSC-certified paperboard. Offering consumers FSC-certified packages means This means the sugarcane plastic in our packs is our customers are helping them make a good choice fully traceable through the Bonsucro Chain of and look after the future of the world’s forests for Custody. . This certification promotes sustainable future generations. sugarcane production, processing and trade around the world and enables our customers to make stronger and more comprehensible sustainability claims about their products.

The FSC license code for Tetra Pak is FSC™ C014047 007 Partner up with Tetra Pak.

Sustainability has been high on our agenda for many years. And we are not on this journey alone. As we make progress, we will be helping food producers, consumers and the entire value chain improve their environmental footprint, mitigate climate change and protect what’s good.

References 1,2 Tetra Pak Environmental Research 2019

008 Tetra Pak® and PROTECTS WHAT’S GOOD™ are trademarks belonging to the Tetra Pak Group. www.tetrapak.com

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