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Sustainable Packaging

Yihai Kerry is committed to reducing the environmental impact of packaging in the production, distribution and recycling process. Taking the national standard GB/T 16716 Packaging and Environment as our guide, we are devoted to our Sustainable Packaging 2025 Plan: Based on the products and sales volume in 2020, we aim to reduce the use of packaging materials for all our products by 15,000 tons by the end of 2025. We are committed to achieving an annual recycling rate of over 90% for packaging materials. In the meantime, we carry out sustainable packaging projects, systematically optimize packaging materials and product design, and continuously develop environmentally friendly product packaging to fulfill our corporate environmental and social responsibilities.

Target: Sustainable Packaging 2025 Plan: Based on the products and sales volume in 2020, we aim to reduce the use of packaging materials for all our products by 15,000 tons by the end of 2025. We are committed to achieving an annual recycling rate of over 90% for packaging materials.

We are committed to promoting the use of sustainable packaging, upholding the 4R1D (such as reduce, reuse, recycle, recovery, and degradation) principles in our operations, implementing the 3R Strategy. Based on the principles of reduction at source, reduction in process and reduction at the end, we continuously reduce the environmental impact of packaging materials.

Reduce:
To meet our functional packaging needs while still meeting consumer (user) expectations, we systematically redesigned our product packaging, and reduced the use of packaging materials by using new materials and changing the physical appearance.

• We have implemented a project to optimize packaging structures for all product categories

• Through formulation optimization and material substitution, we have reduced plastic packaging by approximately 210 tons. Additionally, we have reduced raw paper consumption by 327 tons through structural optimization. The glass bottle packaging has achieved a weight reduction of 119 tons, resulting in reduced energy and material consumption.

Reuse:

We improved the reuse of packaging materials and reduced packaging waste.

•  We work with upstream and downstream suppliers to reduce packaging and increase the use of recycled materials in packaging projects.
•  We encourage the reuse of ton bags for packaging feed products, with a goal of reusing each bag at least 10 times, resulting in a 90% reduction in plastic consumption.
•  We replace injection molded packaging with reusable crate packaging to reduce the consumption of paper boxes.

Recycling:
We adjusted packaging material formulations and optimized the structural design to make it easy to recycle the packaginjg materials.

• We optimize the packaging of lightweight materials from multilayer composite materials to a single homogeneous material structure, making the new packaging meet the requirements of easy recycling.
• We promote sustainable packaging design and use recycled plastics in non-food contact packaging to reduce the consumption of virgin plastics. For example, adding a certain proportion of recycled plastics in packaging materials for feed ingredients, in compliance with national packaging regulations, can promote the annual recycling of 15,000 tons of plastics.

Advocating packaging sorting and recycling

The Company prioritizes supporting consumers to accurately sort and recycle packaging after use. For example, the plastic packaging bottles and caps of our packaged oil products are marked with the plastic code; and metal packaging has the recyclable packaging logo printed on it. In the future, we plan to gradually add packaging recycling marks, material identification marks of packaging components, and packaging recycling guideline marks to recyclable product packaging under the national standard GB/T18455 Packaging Recycling Marks when products are replaced. We will reformat our packaging to help consumers accurately classify and recycle our product packaging.

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