Plastic Omnium // 2021 Universal Registration Document

NON-FINANCIAL REPORTING DISCLOSURE Plastic Omnium's business model

The ACT FOR ALL TM day The ACT FOR ALL TM day is an opportunity for all 31,000 employees (including temporary employees and subcontractors) to come together around the founding values of the ACT FOR ALL TM program. The 2021 edition took place on November 9 th with the central themes of safety and climate change. An online “Serious Game”, available in 20 languages, was offered to Group employees with the aim of raising their awareness the major challenges of climate change and presenting them the actions implemented to achieve carbon neutrality. In a video, translated into 20 languages, Laurent Favre, Chief Executive Officer, Félicie Burelle, Managing Director, and David Meneses, Sustainable Development EVP, reaffirmed the Group’s commitment to achieving this objective. Employees were invited to take part in a photo and video challenge, which was a great success. On-site activities were organized: safety stands, first aid training, risk hunting, waste collection, tree planting, etc. A virtual space dedicated to the event, the Hive Sphere, allowed the sites to share, in real time, photos of the game sessions and activities organized locally. Ambitious targets to achieve carbon neutrality In December 2021, the Group announced its carbon neutrality roadmap to the management of all sites, the financial community and the press, as well as suppliers. The roadmap aims to achieve the following objectives: reach carbon neutrality in Group's operations (Scopes 1 & 2) by 2025 ● (100% reduction in CO2 emissions); reduce by 30% all Scope 3 emissions, upstream and downstream, ● by 2030; be completely neutral by 2050. ● These targets are aligned with those of the Paris Agreement aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. They were also validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) in October 2021, a benchmark organization in climate science at world-scale.

These objectives have been broken down into four priority actions; 1 REDUCE This involves reducing the electricity and gas consumption of the sites. The latter will be equipped with modernized, less energy-consuming equipment and consumption monitoring systems to reduce energy losses, which, coupled with employee awareness, will reduce electricity consumption by 10 to 15%. An investment plan, covering around 100 sites, is being rolled out by 2025. 2 REPLACE This involves replacing fossil energy purchases as much as possible with “green” energies (solar or wind) by installing equipment on sites or signing clean energy supply contracts. At this stage, 32% of the Group’s electricity purchases are renewable, five sites are equipped with solar panels or wind turbines and around 20 more will be equipped by the end of the year. 3 COMPENSATE This involves offsetting the CO2 emissions that cannot be reduced by identifying projects that reduce CO2 emissions and which would not have been possible without the support of Plastic Omnium. Discussions are underway on projects that will have an impact on CO2 emissions in the value chain, such as the financing of electric charging stations or hydrogen infrastructure. 4 COLLABORATE For purchasing and logistics, the Group will favor suppliers who are themselves committed to managing their carbon footprint, to use less carbon-intensive, recycled or bio-sourced materials and clean transportation. Plastic Omnium thus stands out for the very pragmatic approach that the Group has put in place to roll out the actions of its roadmap.

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“The Group is stepping up its actions and making strong commitments for the climate and for more sustainable mobility” David Meneses, Sustainability Director

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