2021 Universal Registration Document

NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE STATEMENT: OUR ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY

Our industrial facilities and offices [NFPS]

Waste [NFPS] 3.3.3.3 Total waste production

ANNUAL PRODUCTIONOFWASTE NORMALIZED TO PRODUCTION – IN TONS/TON – BIC

Non-hazardous waste Hazardous waste

As part of its operations, BIC generates both Hazardous and Non-Hazardous waste. Non-Hazardous waste accounts for 85% of the total (in tons) and includes, for example: packaging waste; ● manufacturing waste (production scrap, plastics, metal, wood, ● cardboard…); maintenance waste (metal, paper); and ● waste from employee activities. ● Hazardous waste, which accounts for 15% of total waste (in tons), is mainly generated by the manufacturing processes and includes for example: absorbents (filters, activated carbon, etc.); ● chemical substances (solvents, inks, etc.); ● WEEE (lamps, batteries, etc.); ● manufacturing waste (such as paper/cardboard, metal or wood ● polluted with chemical substances, etc.). Over the years, BIC has developed a global waste management policy and many programs at factory level to promote waste reduction and ensure waste is suitably recovered. In 2021, various projects were undertaken at BIC plants and in particular at: the Graphic Europe facility (Spain), changed the type of ● cleaning material at the workshop from paper to reusable washable rags; the Conte site in France, in partnership with their waste ● contractor, identified better ways of waste treatment to minimize the landfilled waste; the BIC East Africa (Kenya) site reduced the number of ● purchased cartons for component storage as well as the number of polythene bags for industrial packaging by replacing them with reusable crates. BIC’s achievements in 2021 in terms of waste production and management were as follows: a 7.8% decrease in the quantity of waste generated per ton of ● production between 2020 and 2021; due to waste reduction initiatives such as in BIC East Africa (Kenya) (which led to a 35.6% waste decrease) as well as the increase of the production volumes compared to 2020; a stable rate of recovered waste generated per ton of ● production; the percentage of recycled waste remained stable between ● 64.5% in 2020 and 65.4% in 2021; a decrease of 20.5% in the quantity of landfill waste disposal ● normalized to the total quantity of generated between 2020 and 2021.

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0.032

0.039

0.180

0.197

0.181

2021

2019

2020

Non-hazardous waste BIC’s achievements in 2021 regarding the production and management of non-hazardous waste were as follows: a 8.6% reduction in the quantity of non-hazardous waste per ● ton of production; in the main offices, waste production totaled 104 tons, up 30% ● in 2021 due to the elimination of archived documents in preparation for the migration of the Clichy office in spring 2022.

BREAKDOWNOF NON-HAZARDOUSWASTE –%OF TOTAL EXPRESSED IN TONS – BIC

4% 8% 2% 14%

5% 6% 2% 13%

1% 10% 2% 13%

74%

74%

73%

2021

2019

2020

Recycled Incinerated with energy recovery Incinerated without energy recovery Sent to land disposal Sent to other form of treatment disposal

100

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