Berry Global Group, Inc. announced its sustainability strategy through a company initiative named Impact 2025. As part of the initiative, Berry will focus on  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 its 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

Berry Global Group, Inc., headquartered in Evansville, Ind. is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative non-woven, flexible, and rigid products. For additional information, visit www.berryglobal.com.