Sustainability Goals
Our sustainability goals are global in scope and represent targets for all of Greif’s business units, facilities and colleagues.
Reducing Our Footprint
CLIMATE STRATEGY
2030 Goal: Reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions 28 percent over a 2019 baseline. Greif will also complete an assessment of Scope 3 emissions and determine the feasibility of a long-term net zero emissions aspiration by the end of 2023.
Global SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
2030 Goal: Evaluate the sustainability performance for 80 percent of our total spend with suppliers.
WATER & WASTE
2025 Goal: Reduce Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) discharged in kilograms by 10 percent per metric ton of production from Riverville and Massillon mills using a 2014 baseline by the end of FY25.
2025 Goal: Divert 90 percent of waste from landfills from all Greif production facilities globally by the end of FY25.
2030 Goal: Reach zero waste to landfill at 97 percent of our production facilities.
Addressing Risk
ETHICS & COMPLIANCE
2025 Goal: Provide online training of the Greif Code of Business Conduct and Ethics to 100 percent of colleagues with access to computers by the end of FY25.
2025 Goal: Provide training and information on the Greif Anti-bribery Policy to 100 percent of colleagues for whom training is relevant by the end of FY25.
Advancing Circular Economy
Circular Manufacturing
2030 Goal: Achieve an average of 60 percent recycled raw material content across products1.
2030 Goal: Make 100 percent of our products recyclable2.
2030 Goal: Recover an average of 80 percent as much material from the market as we ship to the market3.
[2] Working across a vast portfolio of raw materials and products, our recyclability targets will be benchmarked by weight, consolidated at a company level.
[3] Recovery targets for Greif products are minimum averages benchmarked across a portfolio of materials and products by weight, consolidated at a company level.
Valuing Our People
Talent Attraction, Development & Retention
2025 Goal: 100 percent of permanent colleagues will participate in regular performance development discussions by the end of FY25.
2025 Goal: Using FY17 baseline, increase average hours of annual training per colleagues by 50 percent by the end of FY25.
2025 Goal: 100 percent of colleagues will be covered by parental leave by the end of FY25.
HUMAN RIGHTS & FAIR LABOR PRACTICES
2025 Goal: 100 percent of our operations will be subject to internal human rights reviews, measured on a rolling cycle, by the end of FY25.
2025 Goal: 100 percent of colleagues will be trained in human rights policies and procedures by the end of FY25.
2025 Goal: Provide online training of the Fair Treatment of Others Policy to 100 percent of colleagues with access to computers and provide accessible and traceable information to all colleagues by the end of FY25.
DIVERSITY, Equity & Inclusion
2025 Goal: Using FY17 baseline, increase the proportion of women in management positions by 25 percent by the end of FY25.
2030 Goal: Attain global gender pay parity.
2030 Goal: Increase the number of female colleagues in our workforce to 25 percent.
2030 Goal: Be in the top 25 percent of manufacturing companies globally for female colleague engagement scores, as measured by the annual Gallup workforce survey.
HEALTH & SAFETY
2025 Goal: Reduce Medical Case Rate by 10 percent annually to achieve 100 percent safety – Medical Case Rate Zero – in the long term.
2025 Goal: Every plant will have a collaborative environmental, health and safety committee consisting of both management and workers by the end of FY25.
