INTRODUCTION PEOPLE COMMUNITY PLANET GOVERNANCE APPENDIX sustainable products Our sustainable packaging strategy includes: We rolled out eight Owned Brands in fiscal year 2021, with more to come in 2022. Owned Brands made up 10% of our overall product sales in 2020 and is expected to grow by three times or more over our 3-year business transformation. Plastic Reduction: Recycled Plastics: Paper Procurement: Our Owned Brands strategy gives us an opportunity to We are currently baselining our We are exploring the use of When sourcing paper for our provide our consumers with more sustainable choices. plastic usage in order to identify recycled plastics in our packaging product packaging, we maximize and address the most significant as a first step to eliminate use of Forest Stewardship Sustainability in Packaging areas of plastic use in packaging, virgin plastic from our product Council (FSC) and Sustainable One of the biggest end-of-life impacts of our products is as well as to track our progress. packaging. In 2021, recycled Forestry Initiative (SFI) certified packaging waste. For our Owned Brands, we are actively plastics made up nearly 30% of our paper products. working to mitigate the environmental impacts of our product packaging by weight. In packing, reduce the materials we use in our packaging, and 2022, we are focusing on recycled design packaging that uses more sustainable materials. options for polybag usage. We have already implemented initiatives to reduce, reuse, or recycle components of our secondary and tertiary packaging Reduce: Reuse: Recycle: To reduce waste and material Where possible we reuse shipping We actively recycle used use in our operations, we have and storage materials, including materials, including electronics, reduced label sizes, replaced inbound shipping cartons as well industrial metals, and inks and airbags with paper dunnage, as pallets. dyes. We also use biodegradable and replaced carton shipping shipping materials. containers with envelopes as available. Additionally, we now utilize electronic packing slips and minimize split shipments to reduce our paper use. Bed Bath & Beyond 2021 ESG Report 28