CONTENTS LETTER FROM LETTER FROM SUSTAINABILITY 2025 SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABILITY DRIVING SOCIAL HELPING PRESERVING NOEL WALLACE ANN TRACY HIGHLIGHTS SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT GOVERNANCE IMPACT MILLIONS OF OUR STRATEGY HOMES ENVIRONMENT Lead with Zero Waste Facilities As part of our 2025 Sustainability & Social Impact Strategy, Colgate is working Achieving TRUE Zero Waste Certifications toward zero waste through the Total Resource Use and Efficiency (TRUE®) Zero Waste certification program overseen by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI). Currently, Achieving TRUE Zero Waste certifications at 100% of our operations is one of our 2025 Sustainability our manufacturing facilities in all our geographies and certain offices and warehouses targets. In 2021, six more of our sites achieved TRUE certification, including our first warehouse to be are using the TRUE® Zero Waste approach and tools. TRUE Zero Waste facilities also certified in Guayaquil, Ecuador. That brings the total number of TRUE certified sites, as of December 31, meet high standards with respect to energy and water efficiency. 2021, to 26, spread across five continents in 16 countries. Colgate was also the first company to achieve this certification in Ecuador and Mexico. As of December 31, 2021, 71% of all of Colgate’s products are being produced at TRUE Zero Waste facilities. Our site in Turkey, the Gebze plant, achieved TRUE certification in 2021. This site found alternative uses for non-recyclable waste, implemented a food waste composting program and reduced inbound and outbound packaging waste. The TRUE Zero Waste program also encourages employee engagement to find unique ways to manage waste diversion. In Turkey, they collected and recycled plastic caps from bottles and donated the proceeds to the Turkey Spinal Cord Injury Association. 2021 SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT PAGE 70