Our 2025 Sustainability Report
At Greif, sustainability is built in across our business. This report illustrates our commitment to pushing our industrial packaging beyond performance to performance that returns. The report highlights our continuous improvement on key sustainability initiatives, goals, achievements, and strategic context over an abbreviated period of 11 months, from November 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025.
Sustainability at Greif
When we build sustainability into how we do business, we go beyond packaging to create performance that returns. Sustainability brings unmatched benefits for our business, teams, communities, customers, and planet.
- Our customers excel in their sustainability journeys, while serving their own customers with packaging that performs and returns.
- Our colleagues grow when we foster a culture that values varied experiences, backgrounds, and skillsets, and creates equal opportunities for growth and development.
- Our business succeeds with sustainability, creating a workplace that is loved and colleagues that keep coming back to contribute their best selves.
- Our communities thrive when we create opportunities for our teams to give back, and we use our business success to help others.
- Our planet recovers when we take fewer resources, reuse what we have, cut down on waste and emissions, and get smart and intentional about reducing our climate impacts.
2025 Recognitions And Awards
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Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace by Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal, based on BPI research
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Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (2nd consecutive year)
2025 Sustainability Achievements
With a focus on business done right, progress through partnerships, and customized product solutions, we’re proud of the work we’re doing.
- Renewable sources generated 4,867 MWh of energy in 2025.
- We diverted 88% of waste from landfills in 2025.
- Our Life Cycle Services (LCS) network reconditioned or remanufactured more than 2.7 million containers, including 1.2 million IBCs and 367,000 plastic drums in 2025.
- Our EcoBalance™ Low Carbon Emission Steel (LCE) drums achieve a 60% cradle-to-gate carbon footprint reduction.
- Our Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) score of 92.4 demonstrates our commitment to customer service.
2030 Sustainability Goals
Zero Waste to Landfill
In 2025, we diverted 87.7% of waste from landfills. By 2030, we aim to meet UL Solutions’ Zero Waste to Landfill standard at 97% of our facilities.
Supply Chain Sustainability Assessment
By 2030, we aim to have 80% of our total supplier spend assessed for sustainability, up from 57% in 2025.
Circular Manufacturing
- Achieve an average of 60 percent recycled raw material content across products1.
- Make 100 percent of our products recyclable2.
- Recover an average of 80 percent as much material from the market as we ship to the market3.
Climate Strategy
Reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions 28 percent over a 2019 baseline.
[2] Working across a vast portfolio of raw materials and products, our recyclability targets will be benchmarked by weight, consolidated at a company level.
[3] Recovery targets for Greif products are minimum averages benchmarked across a portfolio of materials and products by weight, consolidated at a company level.
Reporting Frameworks
Our FY 2025 sustainability disclosures were prepared with reference to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards and the SASB Standards Application Guidance. This report also serves as our United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Communication on Progress (COP).
Sustainability Performance Over Time
Transparency is important to us. To see performance in waste, water, energy and more over time, visit our Performance Dashboard.
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Report Archive
Download historical Sustainability Reports, published annually since 2009.
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Basis of Reporting
Find detailed information about our reporting approach, scope, and controls.
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