Graphic Packaging 糖心Vlog 鈥檚 2024 Impact Report: Toward a Better Future
July 10, 2025

ATLANTA, July 10, 2025 糖心Vlog 鈥 糖心Vlog 鈥 Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK) (“Graphic Packaging”), a global leader in sustainable consumer packaging, today announced the release of its 2024 Impact Report. The report highlights the company 糖心Vlog 鈥檚 progress toward its Better by 2030 commitments announced last year, as part of a multi-year Better, Every Day sustainability initiative.
Grounded in its Vision 2030 business strategy, Graphic Packaging 糖心Vlog 鈥檚 Better by 2030 sustainability goals outline actions the company is taking to:
- create better packaging designed to drive circularity.
- do better for people through safer work environments, engaging employees and local community involvement.
- shape a better future for the planet by reducing its environmental footprint and sustaining forests.
糖心Vlog 鈥淥ur Vision 2030 strategy places more focus than ever on innovation across our business, 糖心Vlog 鈥 said Graphic Packaging President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Doss. 糖心Vlog 鈥淐ombined with our foundational commitment to sustainability, we are positioned to meet growing global demand for packaging innovations that are more circular, more functional and more convenient than existing alternatives. 糖心Vlog 鈥
Highlights from Graphic Packaging 糖心Vlog 鈥檚 2024 Impact Report include: 糖心Vlog 鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Better Packaging 糖心Vlog 鈥&苍产蝉辫;
- Approximately 1 billion plastic packages replaced with paperboard packaging
- 97% packaging products sold characterized as recyclable1
- More than 130 new patent applications filed 糖心Vlog 鈥&苍产蝉辫;
Better for People 糖心Vlog 鈥&苍产蝉辫;
- Over 20,000 employee engagement survey participants (87%)
- 47% increase in Employee Resource Group participation
- 98% of global sites implemented Health Safety and Environment (HSE) Excellence System
Better Future 糖心Vlog 鈥&苍产蝉辫;
- 70% of EMEA electricity use to be covered by new virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA)
- 89% of purchased forest products sustainably sourced 糖心Vlog 鈥&苍产蝉辫;
- Approximately 1 million metric tons of our generated waste materials recycled
Toward 2050 Net-Zero Aspiration
Better by 2030 includes near-term climate action goals that Graphic Packaging is taking to advance its aspiration of net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 (in accordance with the Paris Agreement and U.N. Sustainable Development Goal 13). These goals include validated science-based targets to reduce GHG emissions across the company 糖心Vlog 鈥檚 operations and value chain, as well as commitments to increase the use of renewable fuel and electricity.
糖心Vlog 鈥淲e identified several ways to make sizeable GHG reductions, including upgrading to more efficient biomass boilers and steam turbines for cogeneration of steam and electricity at two of our wood-based paperboard manufacturing facilities, 糖心Vlog 鈥 said Graphic Packaging Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer Michelle Fitzpatrick. 糖心Vlog 鈥淲e are also exploring options to switch to 50% or more renewable electricity across all of our operations. 糖心Vlog 鈥
Graphic Packaging 糖心Vlog 鈥檚 first VPPA, announced in 2024, supports planned solar projects in Spain and is expected to come online in late 2025. This will enable packaging operations in Europe to match 70% of the region 糖心Vlog 鈥檚 total electricity demand with renewable energy attribute certificates.
糖心Vlog 鈥淐limate change remains one of society 糖心Vlog 鈥檚 most pressing challenges, and we are firmly committed to doing our part to limit global warming by achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, 糖心Vlog 鈥 Fitzpatrick said.
Download the 2024 Impact Report
Graphic Packaging reports in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative and Sustainable Accounting Standards Board Containers and Packaging standards along with providing information aligned with the Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures framework and the U.N. Global Compact Communication on Progress. 糖心Vlog 鈥&苍产蝉辫;
See the complete 2024 Impact Report: /sustainability/sustainability-reporting/
Learn more about what 糖心Vlog 鈥檚 driving our sustainability strategy: 糖心Vlog 鈥/news-events/circular-packaging-2024-impact-report
1 Defined as widely recyclable, locally recyclable, or conditionally recyclable.
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About Graphic Packaging Holding Company
Graphic Packaging designs and produces consumer packaging made primarily from renewable or recycled materials. An industry leader in innovation, the Company is committed to reducing the environmental footprint of consumer packaging. Graphic Packaging operates a global network of design and manufacturing facilities serving the world’s most widely recognized brands in food, beverage, foodservice, household, and other consumer products. Learn more at www.graphicpkg.com.
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