Sustainability Progress and Accomplishments

2009 has been a year of action as we have focused on embedding sustainability into our operations and quantifying our sustainability activities in order to track our progress. We are working on a wide variety of projects throughout the company and continue to move in the right direction. Here are just a few specific examples of our progress so far:

• Ball Packaging Products, Americas, improved energy efficiency by 5%
• Metal Food & Household Products Packaging Division, Americas, used 13% less energy
• Metal Beverage Packaging Division, Americas, reduced VOC release by 12.8%
• Plastic Packaging Division, Americas, reduced water use by 8.7%
• Ball Packaging Europe reduced natural gas usage by 4.1%
• Ball Aerospace installed weather sensing controls for the irrigation system at our offices in Broomfield, Colo., potentially reducing water use by six to nine million gallons a year.

Recent Ball Sustainability News:

• Ball’s sustainability report was selected in April 2009 as co-winner, Best First-Time Reporter Award for sustainability reporting in the 2009 Ceres-ACCA North American Sustainability Awards.
• In May 2009, Ball was selected for the FTSE4Good Index Series. The index recognizes companies with policies and systems in place to manage social, ethical and environmental risks.
• In its inaugural ranking of the greenest big companies in America, Newsweek magazine ranked Ball as No. 111 out of 500 of the largest U.S. companies as measured by revenue, market capitalization and number of employees. The magazine ranked companies based on actual environmental performance, policies and reputation.

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