Company: GEF
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000043920-25-000004
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Company: GREIF, INC
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: DEF 14A
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 demand for circular packaging solutions.

From a corporate social perspective we are actively advancing programs to create an even safer, more engaged, diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce setting where all colleagues can grow and thrive. Our safety, inclusion, and colleague engagement goals include achieving zero harm at all facilities globally, the expansion of internal human rights assessments, and increasing the representation of women on the Board of Directors, in management positions, and throughout the workforce. As of the end of fiscal year 2024, 36% of our Board of Directors, 30% of our executive leadership team, and 18% of our global workforce were women.

We published our first sustainability report in 2009 and issued our 15 th consecutive sustainability report in April 2024 , which was based on our fiscal year performance ending October 31, 2023. The report provides our 2025 sustainability goals and 2030 sustainability targets and highlights progress and strategies underway to achieve those goals and targets. Our sustainability report is prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative Standards, which include Core Option, SASB Application Guidance and fulfills the United Nations Global Compact annual Communication on Progress. We also aligned our climate-related disclosures with recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures. Our 2023 report is available in full at https://www.greif.com/sustainability-2023/report-downloads/.

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Notable highlights and awards include the following:

| Environmental Highlights                                                                                                                                                                |     |                      |
| •3.7 million containers reconditioned, remanufactured or recycled (95,360 metric tons virgin material saved) in 2023                                                                    
 •  Approximately 3.2 million tons of recycled fiber collected, brokered and/or processed in 2023                                                                                        
 •  Used more than 1.4 million tons of recycled paper in our paper products in 2023                                                                                                      
 •  90% of the fiber used in our paper manufacturing operations was derived from purely recycled inputs in 2023                                                                          
 •  Soterra forests sequestered over 151,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2023                                                                                                       
 •  Overall, diverted 88% of production waste from landfills in 2023                                                                                                                     
 •  All Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific production facilities diverted ≥ 90% of waste from landfills in 2023                                             
 •  49 zero waste to landfill production facilities in 2023