Grove Collaborative Releases Annual Sustainability Report
May 31 2023 - 9:01AM
Business Wire
Leading sustainable consumer products company
shares sustainability milestones, update on its roadmap toward
becoming plastic free, and a look ahead to a future Beyond
Plastic™
Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GROV) (“Grove” or “the
Company”), a leading sustainable consumer products company and
Certified B Corp, today released its fourth annual Sustainability
Report for 2022-2023. The comprehensive report introduces new
company sustainability initiatives, including an update on the
Company’s roadmap to be plastic free, and reaffirms its mission to
transform the consumer products industry into a positive force for
human and environmental health.
“We are pleased to share Grove’s fourth annual sustainability
report, which is both a reflection of the progress we have made so
far to get closer to our vision of consumer products making a net
positive impact on the lives of people and the planet - as well as
the work that still needs to be done to create a more sustainable
future, not just for our company, but for our industry,” said
Stuart Landesberg, co-founder and CEO of Grove Collaborative. “We
remain focused on striving for progress in a messy world while
considering opportunities for greater impact. We strongly encourage
our industry to join us in working together to find sustainable and
innovative solutions – particularly on our path away from
single-use plastic.”
Highlights from the 2022-2023 Sustainability Report include:
1. Grove’s Latest Plastic Scorecard Shows Beyond Plastic™
Impact Originally published in 2020, Grove’s Plastic Scorecard
is the first of its kind to publicly report on the Company’s total
plastic footprint. In addition to being the industry’s first
plastic intensity metric, other highlights from the scorecard
include:
- Total plastic footprint. Since 2017, Grove customers
have helped avoid or collect over 20 million pounds of
plastic by purchasing plastic-reducing Grove Co. and Peach Not
Plastic products instead of conventional brands. In 2022, Grove’s
plastic footprint was approximately 3.2M pounds, compared to 4.9M
pounds in 2021 and 5.1M pounds in 2020 - a 37% decrease in
Grove’s plastic footprint since 2020.
- Refillable or reusable. The Company seeks to offer more
reusable or refillable products and packaging site-wide while also
reducing single-use plastic. In 2022, 16% of products sold by
Grove were refillable or reusable, compared to 13% in 2021 and 12%
in 2020.
- Impact. Grove measures impact by tracking the amount of
plastic the Company’s owned-brand products have avoided versus
conventional brands. Since 2020, Grove Co. cleaner concentrates
have helped avoid 2,175,519 pounds of plastic, while the
reusable sandwich bags have helped avoid 2,839,146 pounds of
plastic since May 2021 compared to conventional products.
- Plastic Neutrality. Grove is the first plastic neutral
retailer in the world. For every ounce of plastic Grove sells, the
Company removes the same amount of ocean and nature-bound plastic
through its partnership with rePurpose Global. Since 2020, Grove
has collected over 12.7 million pounds of plastic through
its plastic neutral program.
2. The Evolution of Beyond Plastic™ Beyond Plastic™ is
Grove’s plan to solve the single-use plastic crisis for home and
personal care products. As outlined in the report, Grove’s Beyond
Plastic™ standard continues to evolve, reflecting the Company’s
ongoing commitment to offering customers the best available product
solutions that push the CPG industry forward.
In an effort to increase transparency and improve the customer
experience online, Grove has identified three categories that best
define products free of plastic waste. In the coming months, Grove
will begin rolling out a Beyond Plastic™ badging system – visual
identifiers clearly displayed on Grove Co. and third-party products
sold on grove.co
- 100% Plastic Free. Products that are 100% plastic-free
and do not include any PVA or plastic components, including Grove
Co. Wool Dryer Balls and soy candles, and Peach Not Plastic bar
soaps.
- No Single Use Plastic. Products that contain durable
reusable plastic, defined by the EPA as lasting 3 years or more,
including Grove Co. glass hand soap dispensers, dish soap
dispensers and glass spray bottles.
- 95%+ Plastic Free. Products that contain no more than 5%
plastic by weight. This includes products packaged in aluminum
containing a minimal plastic-based coating required to uphold the
integrity of the aluminum without affecting recyclability, such as
Grove Co. hand soaps and dish soaps.
3. Grove Aims to Separate Plastic from Profit With the
goal to decouple business growth from its plastic footprint, and to
more accurately and effectively measure Grove’s progress out of
plastic, the Company began measuring the amount of plastic weight
used per $100 revenue in 2020. Grove published in the 2022-2023
Sustainability Report, the industry’s first plastic intensity
metric, which shows year over year reductions in the amount of
plastic sold per $100 revenue.
- Site-wide the Company yielded 1.06 pounds of plastic per $100
revenue in 2022, compared to 1.32 pounds per $100 in 2021, and 1.44
pounds per $100 in 2020 - a significant 25% decrease since Grove
began tracking plastic intensity in 2020.
- When looking at Grove’s owned brands, including Grove Co. home
care products and Peach Not Plastic personal care products, plastic
intensity is even lower, with only 0.87 pounds of plastic sold per
$100 revenue in 2022 compared to 1.07 pounds per $100 in 2020 -
an 18% decrease since Grove began tracking plastic intensity in
2020.
About Grove Collaborative Holdings,
Inc. Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove
Collaborative Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GROV) is transforming consumer
products into a positive force for human and environmental good.
Driven by the belief that sustainability is the only future, Grove
creates and curates more than 150 high-performing eco-friendly
brands of household cleaning, personal care, laundry, clean beauty,
baby and pet care products serving millions of households across
the U.S. each year. With a flexible monthly delivery model and
access to knowledgeable Grove Guides, Grove makes it easy for
everyone to build sustainable routines.
Every product Grove offers — from its flagship brand of
sustainably powerful home care essentials, Grove Co., plastic-free,
vegan personal care line, Peach Not Plastic, and zero-waste pet
care brand, Good Fur, to its exceptional third-party brands — has
been thoroughly vetted against Grove’s strict standards to be
beautifully effective, supportive of healthy habits, ethically
produced and cruelty-free. Grove is a public benefit corporation on
a mission to move Beyond Plastic™ and is available at select
retailers nationwide, making sustainable home care products even
more accessible. For more information, visit www.grove.com.
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