Accomplished through hundreds of small projects, team members from around the world led initiatives to decrease energy use in Berry's facilities.
Berry Global Group Inc. recently announced the approval of projects that will help it achieve its new milestone goal to eliminate 100 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity from its operations. Berry surpassed its initial target to eliminate 1 million kWh from its operations in 2020 and is leveraging that success to reach its 100 million kWh goal. With an original deadline of September 2021, Berry is ahead of schedule in achieving these project approvals.
Through the sharing of best practices, Berry team members collaborated across 324 energy-saving projects to achieve record energy reduction. In addition, 5 million kWh were saved through improvements that did not require capital investment. These reductions in energy directly reduce Berry’s scope 1 and 2 emissions, which inherently reduce customers’ scope 3 emissions. The emissions saved from this reduction in energy are equal to the CO2 emissions to power over 8,500 homes for one year, charge 8.6 billion smartphones, and greenhouse gas emissions of 15,000 passenger vehicles for one year.