Company: GROVW
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-013839
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Company: Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 in which they engage with our community and platform. 

In addition, our research and product development team brings both HPC product experience as well as digital channel know-how to our innovation road map. We believe the combination of our data along with our innovation capabilities allows us to consistently produce high-quality, efficacious products with speed to market.

Sustainability and Environmental Health and Safety

Grove’s corporate sustainability ethos and sustainable product offering are our primary differentiators. Our customers seek carefully created and curated products that align with their values around environmental health and safety. As part of that value proposition, we pride ourselves on our industry-leading sustainability work in areas relevant to our business: plastic, forests, and carbon.

Plastic

The HPC industry has been built on seemingly cheap and disposable single-use plastic packaging. As consumers awaken to the reality of the plastic pollution crisis, they are urgently and increasingly demanding new solutions. 

Plastic Neutrality. Every order at Grove is 100% plastic neutral. For every ounce of plastic we sell, we recover this equal amount of ocean-bound plastic in partnership with rePurpose Global. Our plastic neutrality program recovers low-

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value plastic waste that is most likely to end up as pollution, helps scale local plastic waste management value chains, and empowers marginalized waste worker communities.

Beyond Plastic. Our industry has historically addressed the plastic pollution crisis by setting unrealistic goals about recycled plastic content that will be impossible to achieve given the realities of recycling infrastructure. Today, only about 5% of plastic is recycled. Beyond Plastic™ is our effort to engender bold action and spur our industry towards long-term, scalable solutions that do not rely on single-use plastic. While we recognize that some plastic in products and packaging is not entirely avoidable given the absence of feasible alternatives, Beyond Plastic™ is our effort to recognize progress and continue to push ourselves and our broader industry forward.

Forests

Our industry is heavily dependent on natural fibers to produce paper products, a staple of home essentials. Without a robust commitment to sourcing new, regenerative materials or recycled fibers that do not rely on cutting down trees, our industry continues to put the health of our forests and protection of biodiversity at risk. Our aim is to conserve forests through our business, both by avoiding use of paper products that directly contribute to deforestation as well as by actively funding forest conservation, both directly and through our carbon offset programs.

Two Million Acres of Forest. In 2022, we reached our goal to plant 1 million trees. Every purchase of Grove Co. paper