Environment, Health & Safety

Our active yield programs have reduced waste of plastic scrap by 50% in past six years.

At Sealed Air, safety and environmental excellence has always been one of our top priorities and today remains one of our core competencies. In all of our operations throughout the world, we are dedicated to actively pursuing environmental initiatives that positively impact our business and industry.

Environmental Stewardship

Sealed Air's comprehensive environmental database measures the programs we have in place to reduce waste quantities, energy usage, water usage, and emissions. We are committed to reducing our environmental footprint and reporting publicly next year on our progress in the following areas:

• Reducing waste, energy and water usage
• Cutting GHG emissions
• Pursuing renewable energy
• Improving ability to recycle materials
• Encouraging employees to be more environmentally aware at work and at home. For example, we recycle our office waste paper and use it for the production of mailers.

Environmental stewardship and conserving resources remain high priorities as well as empowering each of our employees to “Make a Difference”.

Safety In the Workplace

We are committed to providing safe working conditions for our employees and to promoting the safe design, use and handling of our products. Through the development and implementation of specific safety drivers and process tools, we have steadily improved our safety performance over the past several years. Our global total recordable incident rate, the annualized number of recordable injuries per 100 full-time employees, has been cut by more than in two-thirds since the year 2000 and compares very favorably with our reported industry average. Our rate of 1.38 in 2007 was a record for the Company.

Footnote: Industry Average represents the national average for the “Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing” industry segment (North American Industry Classification System) for years 2003-2006 and the “Miscellaneous Plastics Products, NEC” industry segment (Standard Industrial Classification) from 2000-2002 as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.