Welcome to our series aimed at spotlighting the NLCRC members and partners.

Discover how these companies are addressing pressing challenges around environmental sustainability issues, such as energy, greenhouse gas emission reduction, packaging, product recyclability, and what inspires each of them to include lubricant packaging recovery and recycling into their ESG objectives and how they hope to make an impact in the lubricant value chain.

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Berry Global serves a large variety of markets including fuels & lubricants, agriculture, animal & pet care, beauty & personal care, building & construction, commercial & industrial supplies, food & beverage, garden & outdoors, healthcare, homecare, hygiene, shipping & transportation, and more. 

Learn more about Berry Global’s Sustainability Pledges, Goals, and Commitments. Read Berry Global’s Impact 2025 Strategy 

What are your long-term sustainability goals and how do they relate to lubricant packaging?

Our sustainability goals are outlined in our Impact 2025 strategy, which is our comprehensive approach to sustainability focused on three key areas; minimizing our product impacts, minimizing our operational impacts, and engaging with partners on key issues.

• Minimizing Our Product Impacts - In line with our strategy and aligned to customer goals, we have committed to minimizing product impacts through 100% of our fast-moving consumer packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025.

• Minimizing Our Operational Impacts - We are continuously innovating and investing to work toward the world goal of a net-zero economy. As an industry leader, our efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and increase the use of renewable energy demonstrate to our industry what can be achieved by focusing on reducing operational impact.

• Engage Partners - We know that we can't achieve all of our sustainability goals without help from others. That's why we engage partners, including employees, suppliers, customers, and communities on key issues and plans to advance our sustainability achievements.

Our Impact 2025 sustainability strategy directly addresses key sustainability issues across the many consumer packaged goods markets that we serve, including the packaging for lubricant products that we manufacture. From caps and closures on smaller format lube products to 5 gallon plastic pails and lids, to the partnership that we have formed with the NLCRC, we are committed to finding a sustainable solution for post-consumer recovery and recycling of plastic lubricant containers. You can see our full Impact 2025 strategy here.

How does your NLCRC membership help your company to meet your sustainability goals and commitments? 

Our membership enables us to further our Impact 2025 commitments in two ways. First, it’s a platform that allows us to form a partnership to solve a key sustainability challenge. We know that finding solutions for sustainability challenges, like post-consumer recovery and recycling of plastic lubricant containers, requires a team effort and the NLCRC is way for us to not only engage and unite with partners across the lubricant industry, but to find a solution. 

Second, the core foundation of the NLCRC is in direct alignment with our goal to make 100% of our packaging reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025. By joining the NLCRC, we are able to actively work towards achieving this goal for our post-consumer lubricant packaging.

What do you value most about the collaborative nature and your membership with NLCRC?

"In direct alignment with our own sustainability goals and those of our customers, providing multiple lives to our natural resources is top of mind. Through collaboration across the value chain and with organizations such as NLCRC, we are moving the needle on recyclability and collection of plastic packaging.” Jason Holsinger, EVP & General Manager

About NLCRC 

The National Lubricant Container Recycling Coalition or "NLCRC" is an industry-led technical coalition, established in 2021 by a committed consortium of lubricant manufacturers and associated plastic packaging manufacturers, focused on establishing solutions for post-consumer recovery and recycling of plastic lubricant containers. Members include Castrol, Valvoline, Pennzoil - Quaker State Company, Graham Packaging, Plastipak Packaging, Berry Global, Chevron, the Petroleum Packaging Council, and Nexus Circular. For more information, visit our website, or connect with NLCRC on LinkedIn and Twitter.