2020 SUSTAINABILITY GOALS – ACHIEVEMENT STATUS

Ball published year-end 2020 sustainability goals in 2016. Setting the groundwork for our ambitious 2030 goals above, they were backed by detailed, shorter-term goals in each business, region and at the plant-level. Ball achieved almost all of the goals established, such as setting a science-based greenhouse gas emission reduction target, improving water and energy efficiency by more than 5%, and rolling out both Diversity and Inclusion and Community Ambassadors programs globally.

Ball did not achieve its 2020 goal to reduce waste generation per unit of production 6% by 2020 against a 2016 baseline. As part of Ball’s commitment to Real Circularity we completed an extensive internal and external review of our monthly waste data. As a result of this review, Ball identified a few instances where country-specific mandatory waste reporting requirements resulted in more comprehensive regional reporting than Ball’s global data monitoring. This discrepancy was a result of how the data are categorized – Ball collects its global waste data into 8 broad waste treatment categories while country-specific data are compiled into numerous and varied waste categories depending on country-specific mandatory waste reporting requirements. To further improve waste data collection moving forward, Ball is updating the standardized waste data collection and guidance documents for its global operations. Although absolute waste volumes increased from 2016 – 2020, the amount of waste reused or recycled increased 49% while amount of waste sent to landfill decreased 47% over the same period.

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