Graham Packaging Releases 2020 Sustainability Report Graham Packaging has released its 2020 sustainabil- ity report, which documents the challenges Graham Packaging overcame in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic while staying focused on helping customers achieve their sustainability goals, as well as Graham’s own efforts to continue innovating within the sustain- able packaging solutions industry. While COVID-19 posed a challenge for Graham Packag- ing, it was far from the company’s sole focus in 2020.The Pennsylvania-based company continued to successfully move ahead on many important initiatives, including: • Expanding its commitment to sustainability by signing on to the UN Global Compact, the largest vol- untary corporate sustainability initiative in the world; • Helping to launch the National Lubricant Contain- er Recycling Coalition, an organization that will tackle issues around oil bottle recycling; • Joining the Digital Watermarks Initiative Holy Grail 2.0 project to improve recycling operations through the use of digital watermarks in sorting efforts; • Continuing to innovate in product lightweighting, durability and reusability, helping to reduce unneces- sary plastic; and • Driving the industry on ethics and governance is- sues, including initiatives on Graham’s codes of con- duct and its strategic response to climate change. Further, Graham Packaging achieved a number of milestones in 2020, which include: • Ranking No. 1 out of 54 companies in the plastic, metal and glass packaging industry in the ESG Risk Rat- ing Report, where 1 is the lowest risk.The third-party evaluator, Sustainalytics, also rated Graham Packaging as No. 3 out of 90 companies in the containers pack- aging industry and overall placed Graham in the top 2 percent of 13,562 companies measured globally by Sustainalytics; • Offering 91 percent fully recyclable PET & HDPE containers and 7 percent sometimes recyclable PP containers; • Accomplishing an 8 percent reduction in climate change impacts from 2019 to 2020; • Reducing its energy intensity by 8 percent from a 2018 baseline, on its way to its 2025 goal of a 25 per- cent reduction; • Winning the 2020 Innovator Award from the Sus- tainable Packaging Coalition; • Earning a 95 percent favorability rating for its En- vironmental, Health & Safety in an internal employee survey; and • Completing 50 life cycle assessment studies to help customers lower their own environmental impact.
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