At Tupperware, we take a strict approach to Compliance throughout our business, aiming to comply with our Code of Conduct, internal policies and all applicable laws and regulations everywhere we operate. We maintain a strong legal team at Corporate and regional or country levels to ensure Compliance requirements are understood and effectively executed.

Our Code of Conduct guides our behavior in all aspects of responsible business and is available in 14 languages. All our new Associates sign an agreement to uphold the provisions of the Code of Conduct and receive related training, and we conduct an annual certification process for all associates to verify acknowledgment of the requirements under the Code of Conduct and for select associates to report any conflicts of interest about which the associate is aware.  In addition, we conduct a detailed review of reported conflicts of interest via the process noted above, which review includes oversight by our Ethics Committee and a report out to our Audit & Finance Committee.

Our suppliers agree to adhere to our Supplier Code of Conduct, which complies with all applicable compliance and anti-bribery laws in the U.S. and Europe and addresses forced labor, child labor, ethical employment and environmental practices worldwide.
We also perform due diligence with new suppliers, including assessments of labor and environmental practices and self-certification to our standards.

We recently began implementing programs in the U.S. and globally for markets to use best practices to create a roadmap to listen, educate, communicate, celebrate and activate. 

In 2021, we worked to expand our Associate Resource Groups with purpose and re-invigorated efforts to make them genuine and useful resources for our associates, as well as to align them with our values. Many of the groups have been renamed and reimagined to focus on the issues that matter most to the associates who lead them. The ARGs now provide a strong forum for capturing associate feedback, developing new leaders and for establishing a cadence of communication between leadership and associates. 

We have invested in supporting commercial and Sales Force initiatives to provide tools or facilitate orders, sales and marketing for the Sales Force and other channels. The independent Sales Force members are encouraged to engage with their local communities to improve lives and livelihoods – whether through volunteer opportunities, product donations or relief efforts. 

For more than 75 years, the foundation of the Tupperware business model has been direct sales through the Sales Force. While we are evolving our omnichannel strategy, we remain dedicated to and investing in the global Sales Force. 

Tupperware recently completed a Global Giving Survey to get a sense of the charitable impacts we achieved throughout the year. A few notable results include: 

- Malaysia: Tupperware provided more than $28,000 worth of in-kind product to What a Waste, a platform built to reduce the amount of good food that gets thrown away at food outlets everyday simply because it hasn’t been sold. 

- South Africa: Tupperware provided food donations for Black disadvantaged children through the Alexandra Disability Movement in Johannesburg. 

- United States: On Giving Tuesday, U.S.-based Associates were invited to be philanthropists for a day by giving to causes they’re passionate about. Each Associate was seeded a mystery dollar amount in their Inspire employee engagement account. In total, $21,750 dollars were donated to more than 117 charitable organizations. 

Since 2017, we have been measuring our performance in the following key areas (i.e., energy and emissions, water and waste), and we have made significant progress since that time. Our revised targets challenge us to deliver significant additional resource efficiencies in the coming decade. 

ENERGY AND EMISSIONS 

• Mexico: Installed 267 LED lamps, leading to an expected savings of 31,022 kWh annually. 
• Belgium, Brazil, Greece, Korea and Portugal: Made energy-efficient and LED lighting improvements in 2021. Many of our other sites began this work in 2020 and earlier. 
• Korea: Replaced forklift chargers with high-efficiency upgrades, leading to an energy savings of 3,254 kWh in 2021. 
• Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal and the U.S: Upgraded equipment like cranes, air compressor systems, forklifts and temperature control systems with more efficient alternatives 
• Greece: Air-leak reduction programs led to an energy consumption savings of 30,000 kWh in 2021. 

WATER 

• Brazil: Implemented new water and oil separation stations and adjusted the rainwater drainage network, helping to eliminate the contamination of rainwater. Additionally, the site added a container to collect the water from extruders to minimize wastewater. 
• India: Water conservation projects were enacted that involved the reuse of runoff and shop floor drain water, leading to a water consumption reduction of more than 10% from 2020 to 2021.  
• Mexico: More than 9,450 liters of water with oil were treated internally in 2021.  
• China: Reduced water consumption for cooling towers by optimizing water conductivity levels.  

WASTE 

• Greece: Piloted using paper tape instead of plastic tape for cartons, reducing the consumption of more than 137kg of plastic tape. 
• India: Waste reduction projects led to a decrease in waste generation of more than 21% from 2020 to 2021. 
• Korea: Reusing color-purged material production led to the reuse of 5.2 tons of plastic waste in 2021. 
• Mexico: Cardboard separation and recovery procedures were reinforced to optimize reuse, drastically reducing the amount of cardboard discarded by more than 39% in 2021 from 2020. 

SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS 

Through our products, we have always been focused on reducing impact on the environment by providing reusable, durable and easy-to-use solutions that help minimize single-use packaging and food waste. We have been able to more than quadruple our total volume of sustainable resins from 2020 to 2021. 

Actions we’ve taken and reported that drive progress toward our 2025 targets include reducing the number of polybags per unit produced, reviewing approximately 1,500 packaging procedures and making improvements where possible; introducing compostable polybags and increasing our investment in our ECO+ and other sustainable material alternatives.