Crown Holdings 2022 Sustainability Report: Water Management & Scarcity - Preserving a Precious Resource - Seite 2

Our Ambition

We aim to responsibly manage water for the long-term protection of the ecosystems and communities where we live and work. Our water stewardship strategy decreases the potential for business disruption while helping protect scarce resources at the watershed level by taking multiple actions including:

• Identifying and eliminating losses and leaks
• Identifying and incentivizing water reuse opportunities
• Piloting and replicating new and hybrid technologies toward Minimal to Zero Liquid Discharge
• Monitoring and recording wastewater quantity, quality, compliance and location of discharge
• Adopting company-wide standard operating procedures defining wastewater discharge quality and standard monitoring requirements
• Ensuring all employees have continued access to safe drinking water
• Ensuring all employees have continued access to sufficient and clean personal hygiene facilities, supplies and education
• Validating the number of plants in high water scarcity locations
• Identifying watershed level projects to implement in high water scarcity locations and executing these initiatives in collaboration with local partners

Compliance with local and national laws and regulations is a priority for Crown. Most of our locations are subject to strict national and local regulations on effluent quality. All incidents related to wastewater exceedances are registered and investigated, and corrective actions are implemented where necessary.

Crown plants and offices have readily available potable water that is unlimited and free of charge to employees. Sanitary facilities, including toilets and hand/face washing facilities, are also available across all our facilities.

"Our water stewardship strategy decreases the potential for business disruption while helping protect scarce resources at the watershed level"

Brazil Water Protection Project

The Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiai (PCJ) Watershed is one of São Paulo's most important watersheds. Composed of three watersheds, Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiai, it supplies drinking water for more than 10 million people. The PCJ Consortium is an intermunicipal consortium formed by constituents of the Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiai Basins. It is a non-profit association which aims to recover the springs in its area of coverage.