Bumble Bees objective is to design and source primary and secondary packaging

which minimizes environmental impact throughout the life cycle while ensuring the
safety and quality of our products, durability in our customer supply chains, effective
shelf presence, and convenience of use to our consumers through application of the
following basic principles:

Reduce/minimize overall package to product ratio

Reduce the amount of packaging going to landfill by utilizing packaging
materials which have readily available recycling streams or other end of life
options
Source from, and leverage the expertise of, packaging suppliers who
demonstrate excellence in the area of sustainable packaging and operations.
Communicate, and encourage, appropriate end of life packaging handling to
our consumers
The majority of Bumble Bees products are packaged in steel cans, aluminum
containers, paperboard cartons and glass bottlesall materials that have established
recycling streams available to consumers.
Packaging Material

U.S. Recycling Rate*

Steel cans

64.3%

Paper

54.5%

Aluminum

48.6%

Glass

28.1%

* US EPA Municipal Solid Waste in the US 2007 Facts and Figures

Some examples of the application of our sustainable packaging principles include:

A 2009 redesign of our Bumble Bee and Cloverleaf Ready to

Eat product packaging from a composite plastic-paperboard to a carton enabled us to
ship 25 percent more units on each truckload taking an estimated 150 trucks off the
road each year and saving 14,000 gallons of fuel. The redesign also eliminates about
700,000 lbs of PVC plastic each year, replacing the material with readily recyclable
paperboard.

Over the past several years, we have down-gauged the steel in our tuna can by 5
percent, reducing the amount of steel used each year by 1.2 million lbs.
Over 90 percent of the paper labels for our tuna cans produced in our plants and all
of our canned salmon labels are sourced from Forest Stewardship Council certified
paper.
In 2008, Bumble Bee rolled out a multipack of canned salmon with a shrink sleeve
comprised of polylactic acid (PLA), a compostable corn sugar based resin.
Through our partnership with RecycleBank, Bumble Bee provides consumers
incentives to curbside recycle by rewarding them with points that can be redeemed
for the products of sponsoring companies like Bumble Bee.