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THE YEAR OF UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS: 2020-21

SUSTAINABILITY

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION      The Year of Uncomfortable Truths Page 04       CARBON             Introduction                                                    Pages 45-46
                  Our Goals                        Page 05       FOOTPRINT          Goals and Milestones                                            Page 47
                  Business as a Force for Good     Pages 06-07                      Our Strategy                                                    Pages 48-49
                                                                                    2030 Science-Based Target                                       Page 50
BEYOND PLASTIC™   Introduction                    Page 09
                                                                                    Carbon Offsets                                                  Pages 51-52
                  Goals and Milestones            Pages 10-11
                                                                                    Circular Business Models                                        Page 53
                  Tracking our Progress           Pages 12-14
                  Plastic Neutrality              Page 15        JUSTICE, EQUITY,   Introduction                                                    Pages 55-56
                  Products and Packaging          Page 16        DIVERSITY &        Goals and Milestones                                            Page 57
                  Our Roadmap                     Pages 17-21    INCLUSION          Vendor Diversity and Inclusion                                  Page 58
                  Progress and Partners           Pages 22-23                       Teams and Initiatives                                           Pages 59-60
                  Case Study: Peach Not Plastic   Pages 24-25                       Benefits, Health and Safety                                     Page 61
                  Memberships and Advocacy        Page 26                           Opportunities and Training                                      Page 62
                                                                                    Social Compliance Policy                                        Page 63
FORESTS & FIBER   Introduction                    Pages 28-29
                                                                                    Giving and Volunteering                                         Page 64
                  Goals and Milestones            Pages 30-31
                  Our Strategy                    Pages 32-33    APPENDIX           Plastic Metrics                                                 Pages 66-70
                  Products and Packaging          Page 34                           ESG Metrics                                                     Pages 71-78
                                                                                    SASB Reporting                                                  Pages 79-82
HEALTHIER HOMES   Introduction                    Page 36
                                                                                    U.N. SDGs                                                       Pages 83-85
                  Goals and Milestones            Page 37
                  The Grove Standard              Page 38
                  Our Anti-Ingredient List        Page 39
                  Certifications                  Pages 40-42
                  Advocacy and Legislation        Page 43                                    G R O V E C O L L A B O R AT I V E · 2 0 2 1 S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y R E P O R T · 2
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INTRODUCTION

What does it mean
to be a sustainable
company?
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INTRODUCTION

2020: The Year of Uncomfortable Truths
               As sustainability reports become standard            • What does it mean to be a                    Our pursuit of these answers will lead us
               practice, we raise the question of responsibility.     sustainable company?                         to drive progress within our industry. The
               Are we doing enough? Increasing transparency                                                        consumer packaged goods market is tied
               is an undeniably positive change, but how can        • How can our business be a force              to unintentional depletion in the name of
               we make an impact in an industry where many            for good?                                    convenience, coupling growth with single-
               of the world’s largest companies set insufficient                                                   use plastic and carbon emissions.
                                                                    • Why do we care so much
               goals that will be reached decades too late?
                                                                      about plastic?
               How can we challenge companies—and global                                                           Our goal is to re-imagine household
               markets—to make bolder changes towards               • Can we decouple growth from                  essentials as a force for positive
               more urgent action?                                    emissions?                                   impact and regeneration, moving from
                                                                                                                   sustainability 1.0—“doing less bad”—to
               At Grove, we know that you’re never too small        • How can we empower our                       sustainability 2.0—“doing true good.”
               to lead an industry—and we’re inspired by              customers to lighten their
               the changes our customers have made, and               footprint at home?                           The hard work ahead includes a better
               even demanded. This year, we want to share                                                          understanding of materials, intersectional
                                                                    • What does it mean to be an
               the key questions that guide our journey and                                                        environmentalism and environmental
                                                                      inclusive employer?
               keep us honest about whether we’re doing                                                            justice—not just planting trees but
               enough in the face of pressing crises. The path      • How do we broaden the reach of               preserving sacred places, making our
               of progress will always continue; there’s no           our products?                                products accessible to not just those who
               point of completion—and no perfect company.                                                         seek them out, and continuing to push
               Accepting this, we’re sharing those questions        • Where else can we push our                   against the inevitability of plastic. Because
               that define our path.                                  industry?                                    sustainability is the only future.

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Our Goals
Grove’s Goals      Right Now                                                                         Up Next

Beyond Plastic     100% PLASTIC NEUTRAL                                                           100% PLASTIC FREE BY 2025
                   Every time you receive plastic from us, we remove the same amount of ocean and We’re working hard to remove plastic from everything we make and sell.
                   nature-bound plastic waste.

Reforestation      DEFORESTATION-FREE SUPPLY CHAIN                                                   1 MILLION TREES & 100% FSC® CERTIFIED PAPER PRODUCTS BY 2022
                   Every purchase of Seedling supports the Arbor Day Foundation in                   We’ll plant 1 million trees in the next year, but we won’t stop there. We’re actively
                   reforesting the U.S. We’ve planted over 635,000 trees to date!                    exploring new ways to support conservation and regenerative agriculture, and
                                                                                                     we’ll reach 100% FSC® Certified paper products by the end of 2022.

Carbon Footprint   CARBONNEUTRAL® CERTIFIED COMPANY                                                  NET ZERO BY 2030
                   Our operations and business activities, including facilities and shipments, are   We’re committed to taking meaningful climate action. We have set
                   all carbon neutral—and in alignment with our Scope 1-2 science based targets.     Science-Based Targets for scopes 1-3 and will be net zero by 2030.

Healthier Homes    NO HARMFUL CHEMICALS                                                              SAFER PRODUCTS EVERYWHERE
                   100% of our products meet our Grove Ingredient Standards, 100% are free           We advocate for legislation requiring ingredient transparency and increasing
                   of harsh chemicals, and 100% of our Grove Co. cleaning and personal care          standards around chemical safety within consumer products and cosmetics.
                   fragrances are transparent.

Justice & Equity   +$350,000 INCREASE IN SOURCING FROM BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES                        15% OF SHELF SPACE TO BIPOC-OWNED BRANDS BY 2022
                   We can make a meaningful impact by engendering diversity in our industry.         We’ve made a pledge to allocate 15% of our shelf space to products from
                   We exceeded our goal to source an additional $250,000 of products and goods       BIPOC-owned vendors and brand partners by the end of 2022. As of Q2, 2021,
                   from Black-owned businesses through 2021 by over $100,000.                        we’re at 9%.

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INTRODUCTION

                   How can our business
                   be a force for good?
                   To start, we’re proud to be a certified B Corp.

                   Grove aims to create household and personal                B Corp community, and we’re committed to
                   care essentials that make a positive impact—               sharing our feedback as we continue to
                   our ability to foster positive change is                   advance our goals.
                   fundamental to our business, not just an
                   afterthought to profits or a way to mitigate               In 2020, we completed our third B Impact
                   negative impacts. To simply accept the model of            Assessment, a triannual requirement to
                   shareholder primacy (maximizing financial profits          maintain our B Corporation certification. Grove
                   with no consideration for social or environmental          faces unique and specific challenges based on
                   outcomes) is counter to who we are as a                    the scope of products we develop and curate,
                   company, so we sought a better fit.                        the complexity of our supply chain and the
                                                                              growth of our business. Through the assessment
                   B Corporations are companies that acknowledge              process, we identified areas of strength and
                   principles that seek to maximize business                  leadership, as well as areas of improvement.
                   objectives beyond the sole objective of                    Reference our public scorecard here, with
                   maximizing shareholder returns. This extremely             highlights included on the next page.
                   rigorous standard incorporates all stakeholders
                   including the environment, workers and
                   communities. We’re proud to be part of the

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BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD (CONTINUED)

Areas of Leadership
• Strong Mission & Engagement: Our mission,                                              • Product Accessibility and Impact on
  ethics, accountability and transparency are                                                Underserved Populations: We strive to
  reflected in every decision we make as an                                                  diversify our product offerings to underserved
  organization.                                                                              populations by entering new sales channels.

• Civic Engagement & Giving: We seek nonprofit
  partners that support Grove’s sustainability
  pillars around human and environmental                                                 Public Benefit Corporation
  health and the ability of our business to be a                                         Grove is a public benefit corporation. This

  force for positive impact.                                                             means that we have a legal duty to manage
                                                                                         the Company in a manner that balances our
• Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion: Our
                                                                                         stockholders’ financial interests, the best
  purpose is to cultivate a more equitable
                                                                                         interests of those materially affected by our
  and inclusive workplace for employees from
                                                                                         conduct (including customers, employees,
  diverse backgrounds.
                                                                                         partners and the communities in which we
                                                                                         operate) and the specific public benefit for
Opportunities for Improvement                                                            which we are organized: the development,
• Environmental Management: In addition to                                               promotion and distribution of consumer
  our waste reduction programs, we continue to                                           products as a positive force for human and
  seek reductions in the footprint of our offices                                        environmental health. As a B Corporation and
  and fulfillment centers.                                                               Public Benefit Corporation, our work is never
• Career Development: We value a culture                                                 done. We continue to evolve as a company to
  where our employees can grow and advance                                               achieve positive change through our business.
  and continue to seek effective ways for our
  employees to grow professionally within our
  organization.

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BEYOND PLASTIC

Why do we care so
much about plastic?
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INTRODUCTION: BEYOND PLASTIC

                                                                                       We are drowning.
                                                                                       Who asked for packaging to last 500 years?
                                                                                       We’re seeking new solutions, now.
                                                                                       Until the very recent past, consumers have                   Given that 76 million pounds of plastic packaging
                                                                                       never been given a choice between household                  is created every day in the U.S. and only 9% is
                                                                                       essentials and packaging that won’t last for                 recycled, we do not feel that our industry is
                                                                                       centuries. Clean hair, clean teeth and clean                 working fast enough or meaningfully attempting
                                                                                       counters have required a major negative                      to address the plastic crisis. While more work is
                                                                                       environmental impact—locking customers into                  needed, solutions are available—but unrealistic
                                                                                       a habit of disengagement through an artificial               goals about recycled content in the absence of
                                                                                       standoff between convenience and sustainability.             recycling infrastructure will not get us there. If
                                                                                                                                                    anything, they will hold us back from adapting to
                                                                                       If you weren’t willing to make your own deodorant            the solutions that we need.
                                                                                       using baking soda, you were stuck with a lifetime’s
                                                                                       worth of empty, non-reusable, non-refillable,                Grove exists to create an alternative solution,
                                                                                       non-actually-recyclable deodorant containers.                where home essentials support environmental
                                                                                                                                                    solutions rather than environmental destruction.
                                                                                       The consumer packed goods industry has                       Single-use plastic is not a part of that equation.
                                                                                       been built on the back of single-use, seemingly
                                                                                       disposable plastic. Profits mean pollution.

Image: For more information, watch Humanity’s Impact: How many plastic bottles do we
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GOALS & MILESTONES

Plastic Free by 2025                                                                               COMING SOON
                                                                                                   Reduce Plastic Per Grove Order
Our goal is for everything we make and sell to be 100% plastic free by 2025, but we know it        In 2020, our customers received almost one pound of plastic in every
won’t be easy. We expect that primary packaging will be plastic-free with rare exceptions. We’re   shipped Grove box. Through partnership with our merchandising and
committed to working with our family of values-aligned, third-party brands to make progress as     marketing teams, we aim to educate customers on how to decouple
                                                                                                   plastic from growth, shipping less plastic for every pound of product.
an industry—rather than charting this course on our own. Success for us doesn’t mean chasing
down the last 1% of plastic or removing a lot of plastic-containing products from our site in
                                                                                                   Share Industry-Leading Plastic Metrics
2024 so that people can buy them elsewhere—it means guiding our industry towards systemic
                                                                                                   As of 2020, plastic and carbon offsets are built into our costs. In
change. What progress looks like will depend on take-back and refillable options as well as        this sense, plastic as a percent of revenue needs to decrease for us
new innovations, but at this point, setting a bold goal feels like our best way to advocate for    to become more profitable—and, as we move away from plastic,
meaningful change.                                                                                 our business becomes more profitable from a shareholder and
                                                                                                   environmental perspective. Just as many companies have created
                                                                                                   an internal carbon price, we have an internal plastic price. For every
                                                                                                   ounce of plastic we sell, we pay a cost to our Plastic Neutral program.

                                                                                                   Roadmap to 2023
                                                                                                   By the end of 2023 or sooner, all Grove-owned brands will contain no
                                                                                                   more than 10% plastic, and no single-use, virgin plastic packaging. As
                                                                                                   of 6/30/21 we reached:

                                                                                                                30%                                         15%                                       12%
                                                                                                        OF GROVE OWNED
                                                                                                                                                     PLASTIC FREE*                           PLASTIC FREE*
                                                                                                        BRAND PRODUCTS
                                                                                                                                                    ACROSS OUR SITE                       THIRD-PARTY BRANDS
                                                                                                        ARE PLASTIC FREE*

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                                                                                                   * Percent of total products
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                                                                                                   containing plastic across all SKUs.
RIGHT NOW                                                      UP NEXT

Plastic Neutral                                                Plastic Free
At Grove, our Plastic Neutral program ensures that for every   Grove exists to transform the products you use in your home into a force for
ounce of plastic we sell, we remove the same amount of ocean   human and environmental good, and plastic isn’t part of that mission. Beyond
and nature-bound plastic waste through our partnerships with   Plastic is our plan to solve the single-use plastic crisis for home and personal care
Plastic Bank® and rePurpose Global.                            products. Today, we’re 100% Plastic Neutral. By 2025, we’ll be plastic-free.

STE P 1                   ST EP 2                              OUR                        OUR                                             OUR

Measure                   Remove                               Vision                     Mission                                         Commitment
We weigh and record       With Plastic Bank®                   We’re looking to           We envision a world                             Beyond Plastic is our
the amount of             and rePurpose Global,                disrupt the existing       where plastic is                                initiative to solve the single-
plastic in every          we recover an ounce                  plastic model, reduce      eliminated through                              use plastic crisis for home
product. Using those      of ocean and nature-                 overconsumption and        redesign, innovation                            and personal care products.
numbers, we calculate     bound plastic for every              provide zero-waste         or new delivery                                 Today, we’re Plastic Neutral
how much plastic we’re    ounce of plastic we sell.            solutions for our          models.                                         with an ambition to be
sending in each order.                                         customers.                                                                 plastic-free by 2025.

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TRACKING OUR PROGRESS
                                                                                                                                   GOAL                               GOAL

Plastic
Footprint
                                                                                                                                   2021    2020                        2021   2020

                                                                                 2,582,976 lbs                                    15%                                13%
                                                                                                                                  OF PRODUCTS ARE                    PLASTIC AS A PERCENT OF
                                                                                 TOTAL PLASTIC WEIGHT IN 1H2021
Originally published in 2020, Grove’s                                                                                             PLASTIC-FREE IN 1H2021             TOTAL PRODUCT WEIGHT IN 1H2021
                                                                                 Total weight of plastic shipped from 1/1/21
Plastic Scorecard is the first of its                                            through 6/30/21, including every brand
                                                                                                                                  COMPARED TO 11% IN 1H2020          COMPARED TO 7% IN 1H2020
kind to publicly report on our total                                                                                              We continue to seek alternate      We aim to reduce this metric
                                                                                 and every product we sell at Grove. This
                                                                                                                                  product and packaging formats      by reducing or eliminating
plastic footprint. We’re using these                                             is an increase of 42,611 lbs compared to
                                                                                                                                  to reduce products in our          unnecessary plastic packaging
disclosures to challenge our industry                                            7/1 - 12/31/20, and an increase of 118,715 lbs
                                                                                                                                  assortment that contain plastic.   in products we sell.
to track and publish their plastic                                               compared to the same period last year.
footprints. As we work towards our                                               Our goal is to decouple business
goal of becoming plastic-free by                                                 growth from our plastic footprint by
                                                                                 introducing more plastic-free products            GOAL                               GOAL                                GOAL
2025, these are the baseline totals
                                                                                 into our assortment.
for plastic used site-wide at

                                                                                 0.75 lbs
grove.com, including all the brands
we sell. Based on data collected                                                                                                   2021    2020                       2021    2020                        2021   2020

                                                                                 AVERAGE PLASTIC PER
thus far, all numbers shown compare
the first half of 2021 (1H2021: 1/1-
                                                                                 SHIPMENT IN 1H2021
                                                                                 COMPARED TO .71 LBS 1H2020
                                                                                                                                  15%                                53%                                 11%
6/31/2021) to the first half of 2020                                                                                              POST-CONSUMER RECYCLED             PLASTIC PACKAGING VS.               OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING
                                                                                 We hope to reduce this number through                                               PLASTIC PRODUCT IN 1H2021
(1H2020: 1/1-6/31/2020).                                                                                                          PLASTIC CONTENT IN 1H2021                                              PLASTIC ARE REUSABLE 1H2021
                                                                                 educating and engaging our community
                                                                                                                                  COMPARED TO 14% IN 1H2020          COMPARED TO 50% IN 1H2020           COMPARED TO 10% 1H2020
                                                                                 to adopt sustainable habits, like choosing
                                                                                                                                  We aim to reduce this metric       We prioritize reducing plastic in   Across our assortment, we’re
                                                                                 plastic-free and plastic-reducing products.
                                                                                                                                  by reducing or eliminating         single-use packaging vs. plastic    seeking to increase reusable
                                                                                                                                  unnecessary plastic packaging      in the product itself.              products and packaging while
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                                                                                                                                  in products we sell.                                                   reducing single-use plastic.
TRACKING OUR PROGRESS
                                                                    GOAL                                          GOAL

Portfolio of
                                                                     MET                                           MET
                                                                                                                                                                            GOAL

Owned Brands
                                                                    2021
                                                                    2021    2020                                  2021    2020                                               2021       2020

                                                                                   OF PRODUCTS ARE                          PLASTIC-FREE BY                                                POST-CONSUMER RECYCLED
                                                                   100%            PLASTIC-FREE IN 1H2021        99%        WEIGHT IN 1H2021                              42%              PLASTIC CONTENT IN 1H2021

                                                                   SINCE LAUNCHING IN 2020                       COMPARED TO 99% IN 1H2020                                COMPARED TO 43% IN 1H2020
Our seven owned brands span home care, personal care,              Always 100% Plastic-free, Peach is on a       Tree-free paper made from strong,                        Plant-based care for skin, hair, and
and wellness, offering healthy formulas and sustainable            mission to kick plastic out of the bathroom   sustainable bamboo. Every purchase                       body made with potent antioxidants and
formats without sacrificing performance. Replacing single-         with Beauty & Personal Care products for      helps replant American forests.                          other vital nutrients.
                                                                   everyone that make sustainability fun— with   Packaging is plastic-free, made from
use plastic is core to our cause of reducing waste, minimizing
                                                                   no performance trade-offs.                    post-consumer recycled content, and
our carbon footprint, and moving Beyond Plastic all together.
                                                                                                                 fully recyclable.
These 2020-21 numbers represent our baseline as we work to
remove all plastic from our products and packaging by 2025.
                                                                                                                  GOAL                                                       GOAL
                                                                    GOAL
                                                                                                                   MET

  GOAL                                                                                                                                                                        2021
                                                                    2021    2020                                  2021    2020

                                          OF PRODUCTS ARE                     PLASTIC AS A % OF TOTAL                       PLASTIC-FREE BY                                                 PLASTIC-FREE BY
                              31+%        PLASTIC-FREE IN 1H2021   23%        PRODUCT WEIGHT IN 1H2021           98%        WEIGHT IN 1H2021                              85%               WEIGHT IN 1H2021

                              COMPARED TO 25% IN 1H2020            COMPARED TO 23% IN 1H2020                     COMPARED TO 98% IN 1H2020                                SINCE LAUNCHING IN 2021

                              Our flagship home care brand is      Shame-free, healthy period care and           High-quality natural nutritional                         O ur newest brand protects your skin
                              sustainably powerful for a healthy   sexual wellness products with a mission to    support to help you noticeably improve                   from environmental stressors and
   2021        2020                                                spread sex education.                         your health and well-being.                              restores your all-natural glow with
                              home and planet.
                                                                                                                                                                          vegan, plant-based skincare.

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PORTFOLIO OF OWNED BRANDS

Grove Co. Brand                                                                                         GOAL                                                          GOAL

Grove Co., our flagship home care brand, is sustainably powerful for a healthy                           2021      2020                                                2021            2020
home and planet. Uncompromising performance, no harsh chemicals, 100%
natural fragrances and moving Beyond Plastic, Grove Co. is redefining the future                                   OF PRODUCTS ARE                                                   OF TOTAL PLASTIC IS
of sustainable home care. We weigh and record materials to keep our ratio                              31+%        PLASTIC-FREE IN 1H2021                          26%               PACKAGING IN 1H2021
of plastic-to-product low, and we track recycled and recyclable plastic in our                         COMPARED TO 25% IN 1H2020                                   COMPARED TO 37% IN 1H2020
products, supporting circular production and our Plastic Neutral efforts.                              We continue to seek alternate product and                   This is the ratio of plastic that is packaging
                                                                                                       packaging formats to reduce the number of                   versus plastic that is part of the product
                                                                                                       Grove products that contain plastic.                        itself. We prioritize eliminating single-use
                                                                                                                                                                   plastic from our packaging.

                                     1,035,108 lbs                                                      GOAL

                                     1H2021 TOTAL PLASTIC FOOTPRINT
  GOAL
                                     COMPARED TO 705,347 LBS IN 1H2020
                                                                                                         2021      2020
                                     Of the total number of Grove Co. products that we’ve shipped
                                     to our customers in 2021, 69% of those products contained                    OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING PLASTIC
                                     plastic, 40% of those plastic products were reusable, and         60%
                                                                                                         2021      2020
                                                                                                                  BY WEIGHT ARE SINGLE USE IN 1H2021
                                     contained an average of 29% post-consumer recycled plastic
                                                                                                       COMPARED TO 61% IN 1H2020
   2021            2020              by weight. The increase in our plastic footprint reflects the
                                                                                                       To reduce this metric, we will reduce or eliminate
                                     growth in our business. While absolute plastic usage went
                                                                                                       unnecessary plastic packaging in Grove Co.
                                     up, our next report will disclose plastic per dollar of revenue
                                                                                                       products. Single-use—or disposable—plastics are
                                     (intensity) to track whether we are making progress in our aim    items, such as pouches or caps, that are used only
                                     to decouple our plastic footprint from our sales.                 once before they are thrown away or recycled.

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BEYOND PLASTIC

Plastic Neutrality                                                                                                   OUR PARTNERS
We consider Plastic Neutrality a realistic way to mitigate the impact of our plastic footprint.                      rePurpose Global (Launched in 2021)
It is not our end goal. We are also focused on maintaining the integrity behind our plastic                          rePurpose Global is a plastic crediting platform dedicated to reducing waste,
collection programs. In the absence of a regulatory body overseeing plastic crediting systems,                       reviving lives, and restoring nature’s balance. Their mission is to allow purposeful
we’re committed to creating a rigorous system of measurement which focuses on transparency,                          people and companies to address our plastic pollution crisis through Plastic
traceability and additionality of collection projects. We remain in close contact with our collection                Neutrality. Through our partnership with rePurpose, we are complementing our
                                                                                                                     continued work with Plastic Bank by scaling to new geographies in India, Kenya
partners on best practices and emerging industry standards and are dedicated to constant
                                                                                                                     and Colombia where our focus will be on the collection of low-value plastics
evaluation of our practices as a standard emerges.
                                                                                                                     (such as candy wrappers or chip bags) that are more likely to end up as pollution.
MAPPING OUR IMPACT                                                                                                   We are also investing in capital infrastructure that will enable the collection
                                                                                                                     of greater volumes of plastic pollution and enable the scalability of corporate
Grove’s Plastic Neutral Programs                                                                                     Plastic Neutral programs. We are proud to diversify our approach to Plastic
                                                                                                                     Neutrality, and know that while it’s not a perfect solution, that our commitment
                                                                                                                     to address the world’s plastic pollution crisis is meaningful. To learn about Grove’s
                                                                                                                     impact through rePurpose, please visit our annual impact report.

                                                                       903,895 lbs
                                                                                                                     Plastic Bank (Launched in 2020)
                                                                       OF PLASTIC COLLECTED

                                                                       India                                         Plastic Bank® empowers the regenerative society. They build ethical
                                                                                              3,351,458 lbs          recycling ecosystems in coastal communities, and reprocess the materials for
                                                                                              OF PLASTIC COLLECTED

                                                                                              Philippines            reintroduction into the global supply chain. Collectors receive a premium for
                                                                                                                     the materials they collect which helps them provide basic family necessities such
                                                                                                                     as groceries, cooking fuel, school tuition, and health insurance. Plastic Bank’s
                                                              1,918,729 lbs
                                                                    OF PLASTIC COLLECTED                             Alchemy™ blockchain platform secures the entire transaction and provides
                                                                Indonesia                                            real-time data visualization – allowing for transparency, traceability, and rapid
                                                                                                                     scalability. Plastic Bank® currently operates in Haiti, Brazil, Indonesia, the
                                                                                                                     Philippines, and Egypt.
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BEYOND PLASTIC

Products &
Packaging                                1,143,874 lbs                                    324,062 lbs                                                                        67,300 lbs
                                           OF PLASTIC AVOIDED IN                            OF PLASTIC AVOIDED IN                                                           OF PLASTIC AVOIDED IN
We’re innovating out of
                                         OUR GROVE CO.™ CLEAN-                             OUR GROVE CO.™ HAND                                                         OUR PEACH NOT PLASTIC™
products containing single-use                 ING CONCENTRATES                                     AND DISH SOAPS                                                                                 PRODUCTS
plastic and into products designed
for circularity: plastic-reducing             Our powerful cleaning         Our high-performance formulas are now                          Our waterless, plastic-free and plant-based
                                     concentrates have moved from           in plastic-free packaging. Since launch in                     personal care products make personal care
and plastic-free, refillable and
                                       plastic to glass and are 100%     October 2020 and transitioning from plastic                           fun, colorful, and waste-free. By replacing
reusable. One way we measure
                                         plastic-free. Since launch in     to aluminum, this new product format has                    traditionally packaged care products with our
the impact of the plastic-free
                                     October 2020, this new product                avoided 73,899 pounds of plastic.                      waterless bar formats, each Peach customer
and plastic-reducing products           format has avoided 335,234                                                                             can avoid 4.44 pounds of plastic per year.
we create and curate is through                    pounds of plastic.
the amount of plastic they avoid
compared to their conventional,
mass market alternatives. Here’s a
few metrics we’ve calculated since
each product’s launch:

4,636,021 lbs
POUNDS OF PLASTIC AVOIDED
IN ALL OUR PLASTIC-FREE AND
PLASTIC-REDUCING PRODUCTS

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BEYOND PLASTIC: OUR PLAN

Roadmap to Plastic-Free                                                                                 PHASE 1
                                                                                                        Available Alternatives
                                                                                                        Phase 1 requires transitioning all possible packaging out of plastic, where
We don’t have total visibility as to how we will get to 100% plastic-free, but that’s not a reason to
                                                                                                        solutions exist. If solutions don’t currently exist, we will use post-consumer
start along our journey. Here’s how we’re thinking about tackling these challenges.
                                                                                                        recycled (PCR) plastic as much as possible. On the collaboration front, in
                                                                                                        2020, we launched our Plastic Working Group with participating third-party
                                                                                                        brands sold on our site.
                                            2021

                                                                                                        PHASE 2
                       ST E P 1:                                     STEP 2:
                                                                                                        New Formats & Behaviors
               Strategic intent                              Start with lower                           Moving into Phase 2 means expanding our resources and testing to find
                                                               effort items                             matches with existing products. Solution must-haves include product
                                                                                                        compatibility, packaging performance, and price. Consumer behavior
                                                                                                        change is likely to support this transition.

                    2022                                         2023 -2025
                                                                                                        PHASE 3
                                                                                                        Innovations & Solutions
                      ST E P 3:                                      STEP 4 :                           While we have less visibility into this chapter of our work, Phase 3 will be

                Kick off new                            Qualify, implement and                          the final stretch of our plastic-free journey. It depends on the creation of
                                                                                                        new materials, technologies and logistics systems that enable us to reach
              technology items                           launch new formats                             a full assortment of plastic-free products.

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BEYOND PLASTIC CHECKLIST: OUR PLAN

Phase 0: Getting Started

         Measurement                                           Goal Setting                                              Industry Action

                                                                                                                          Engage with suppliers on plastic free, recycled
         Collect a list of all SKUs (including non-plastic).   Start a conversation about plastic removal
                                                                                                                          plastic, lightweight and other existing
                                                               and reduction.
                                                                                                                          alternatives.
         Create a measurement system to capture
         what parts include plastic, as well as what           Examine organizational commitments around                  Explore convening groups around packaging,
         type of plastic and if recycled content is used.      sustainability-how does plastic fit in?                    plastic and overall sustainability.

                                                               Consider low hanging fruit around reduction in
         Familiarize teams with concepts of recyclability                                                                 Support local legislation oriented around
                                                               packaging such as secondary packaging.
         and what plastics are likely to be recycled.                                                                     reducing/disincentivizing single use plastics.

                                                               Collect consumer insights about functionality,
         Start to measure or otherwise capture places          packaging preferences, etc.
         in supply chain, offices or other business
         activities that might also be plastic intensive or
         create significant waste.

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Phase 1: Available Alternatives

         Design                                         End of Life                                             Industry Action

                                                                                                                 Launch Plastic Working Group to share best
         Transition out of plastic wherever possible    Label all packaging with How2Recycle
                                                                                                                 practices, our roadmap, and create a plan for
         into materials that are commonly recyclable.   instructions to maximize chances of it being
                                                                                                                 industry action.
                                                        recycled properly.

         Increase PCR and recycled content                                                                       Launch advocacy practice: Support legislation
         wherever possible.                                                                                      and working groups that advance both state
                                                                                                                 and national legislation around increased
         Prioritize most commonly recycled materials                                                             recycling, disincentivizing single-use plastics,
         in place of those unlikely to be recycled.                                                              and addressing plastic pollution.

         Reduce all unnecessary packaging.

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BEYOND PLASTIC CHECKLIST: OUR PLAN

Phase 2: New Formats & Behaviors

         Design                                                 End of Life                                          Industry Action

         Develop new formats for packaging that                 Increase compostable packaging                        Pilot circularity programs to explore
         prioritize refills, avoid single-use, and transition   assortment. Ideally, make packaging home              feasibility of long-term reuse addressing
         away from plastics.                                    compostable where possible.                           plastic pollution.

         Innovate new products. For example, eschew                                                                   Publish a list of aggregated packaging
         traditional bottles in favor of plastic-free bars.                                                           innovations through the third-party brand
                                                                                                                      Plastic Working Group. Research innovations
         Through testing, explore the role of consumer                                                                and changes required for an industry-wide
         behavior changes. Examine consumer                                                                           transition to plastic-free packaging. Signal
         acceptance and adoption. Increase focus                                                                      demand that consumer packaged goods,
         on the measurement of average plastic                                                                        personal care, and the clean beauty industry
         in packaging, and design a path towards                                                                      are ready and eager to go plastic-free.
         reduction through behavior change.

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BEYOND PLASTIC CHECKLIST: OUR PLAN

Phase 3: Innovations & Solutions

         Design                                           End of Life                                             Industry Action

                                                          Create scalable circular packaging or                    Catalyze our industry to make bold
         Design for materials recovery. Consider
                                                          refill systems, enabling take-back models                commitments to plastic-free solutions.
         packaging that can be recovered and reused
                                                          that avoid landfill waste and reach a                    Participate in the creation of industry-
         rather than recycled.
                                                          large percentage of Grove customers.                     wide goals.

         Make packaging a force for good. For             Prioritize longevity and re-use over                     Partner with other retailers who share
         example, explore the creation of new materials   recycling. We envision a world in which                  our commitment to avoid plastic and
         from waste and examine carbon capture            every Grove box leaves minimal materials                 move towards circularity. Scale systems for
         and/or carbon-negative packaging. Explore        in home recycling bins, and anything that                packaging collection, take-back, and/or refill.
         the potential role for permanent durable         goes into the bin is truly recyclable in the
         plastic goods with demonstrated longevity.       majority of U.S. households.

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OUR PROGRESS AND PARTNERS

                   How are we doing on
                   our goals?
                   We’re making steady, plastic-free progress.

                   While we refine our long-term goals and timelines              removing any single-use plastic packaging
                   to move out of plastic, tracking to the phases                 from our assortment. As it relates to further
                   outlined in our checklists, we’ve begun to develop             development, we are considering the following
                   an internal roadmap for both our Grove-owned                   principles:
                   brands and our site, which aim to address or
                   track progress in relation to our goals. Most                  1. Holistic Design: Design out of single-use plastic
                   critically, these milestones help create points                    waste when possible and evaluate life cycle for
                   of incremental progress. We are centering our                      circular economy optimizations, without the use
                   owned brands approach around materials,                            of any single-use plastic packaging.
                   overconsumption and end of life—seeking to
                   address challenges where our industry and                      2. Material Selection: Maximize recycled content
                   sustainability principles lack alignment.                          and choose materials that can be recycled
                                                                                      based on How2Recycle guidelines.
                   Grove-Owned Brands Approach
                   Grove-owned brands are focused on designing                    3. Performance: Packaging must consider the
                   out of single-use plastic as a first priority. As of               full supply chain of the product to reduce
                   this year, Grove-owned brands will not launch                      damage, improve transit efficiencies and meet
                   any new products that require virgin, single-use                   shelf-life requirements.
                   plastic as primary packaging, and we’re actively

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OUR PROGRESS (CONTINUED)

                                                                                         Plastic-Conscious Partners
4. Consumer Engagement: Every package must                                               We’re committed to moving our industry forward,
  contain the How2Recycle label to inform                                                and we work with third-party brands to offer a
  consumers how to dispose of it.                                                        wide range of plastic-conscious solutions.
                                                                                         In 2020, we added 163 plastic-free products, from
5. Durability: Products are designed for long-                                           32 brands, to our Grove assortment. Everything
  term usage and modularity for any parts that                                           available at Grove has met our standards for
  need replacement.                                                                      ingredients, efficacy, cruelty-free production,
                                                                                         and sustainability—and our partners have
Grove Third-Party Brands                                                                 been tremendously receptive to our goals
Grove seeks to be a marketplace for values-                                              around plastic, even with major questions about
aligned brands who share our vision to improve                                           feasibility within each product category and
our industry. While we know that new packaging                                           available alternatives. In 2020, we launched a
formats are critically needed, as a first step while                                     Plastic Working Group to facilitate collaboration
we work with our existing brands to transition                                           and learning around plastic reduction, and we
out of single-use plastic packaging, by 2022,                                            look forward to reporting on our progress.
Grove will not onboard any new brands whose
packaging is primarily single-use, virgin plastic.                                       Seventh Generation
We are working to further refine our timelines for                                       Launched in September 2020 exclusively at
third-party brands.                                                                      Grove, Seventh Generation introduced a line
                                                                                         of Zero Plastic home care and personal care
• 12% of products from our third party brands                                            products. These liquid free, mineral-based,
  are currently plastic-free, and we’re working to                                       biodegradable cleaning products are packaged
  reach 15% by the end of 2021.                                                          in steel—the most recyclable and recycled
• We aim to have 50% recycled plastic by the end                                         material in the world—along with no synthetic
  of 2023.                                                                               fragrances, no dyes, no bleach, no wrappers, and
                                                                                         certainly no plastic.

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CASE STUDY

                                    Launching Our First
                                    100% Plastic-Free
                                    Personal Care Brand
                                    In 2020, we launched Peach Not Plastic™—a
                                    fun, experiential personal care brand on a
                                    mission to kick plastic out of the bathroom.
                                    Why We Went Plastic-Free                                  We launched Peach Not Plastic in 2020 to show
                                    At Grove, we seek to challenge existing product           our consumers and the industry that it’s possible
                                    formats that have plagued the personal care               to have an enjoyable, experiential and effective
                                    industry with single-use plastic. For decades,            beauty and personal care routine without all of
                                    clean hair and body care meant plastic bottles            the plastic packaging.
                                    full of liquid.
                                                                                              How We Did It
                                    Through our research and testing, we discovered           Launching Peach successfully meant overcoming
                                    that plastic and water have zero performance              decades of learned behavior and expectations
                                    benefit—whether in hand soap, body wash or                around product format, performance and in-
                                    shampoo.                                                  use experience. Here is how we approached the
                                                                                              challenges:

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CASE STUDY (CONTINUED)

Love to Lather                                                                           Storage and Travel
The first thing we learned when talking to our                                           Storing bar products in the shower can be tricky.
consumers is that rich, soft and creamy lather                                           They need to drain and dry properly between
matters—a lot. Lather is linked intuitively                                              uses. So helping consumers through education
with the feeling of clean hair—even if there’s                                           and offering adjacent products—such as shower
not necessarily a direct connection between                                              soap dishes—helped to make sure they were
lather and cleaning performance. So we                                                   able to take good care of their products. Also,
made the product experience a priority—                                                  traveling with these bars is a breeze since they
rich, creamy lather, paired with expressive,                                             aren’t restricted by TSA regulations—unlike liquid
delightful fragrances are as important as high                                           hair and personal care products.
performance and squeaky clean hair.
                                                                                         A Year After Launch...
Making the Switch Oh-So-Easy                                                             ...we found that our customers are loving our
Many people want to do better for the                                                    plastic-free Peach Not Plastic hair, facial and
environment, but aren’t sure how—and they                                                body bars. We’ve expanded our portfolio with
certainly don’t want to compromise on product                                            an industry-first, refillable and aluminum-based,
performance. So Peach set out to make                                                    infinitely recyclable deodorant system, and
sustainability fun—all without performance                                               we’re working hard to bring even more plastic-
trade-offs versus conventional formats. With                                             free beauty and personal care options to our
fun shapes, expressive and delightful scents                                             consumers. Our bars alone have received over
and highly effective products, there’s no reason                                         830 reviews and are consistently rated above 4
not to switch to Peach—all while saving the                                              stars—all while avoiding 64,000 pounds of plastic
planet one plastic-free product at a time. We                                            in less than one year. We can’t wait to see what
don’t preach sustainability, we make it inviting                                         year two will bring!
and fun for everyone!

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AMPLIFYING OUR IMPACT

Memberships & Advocacy
                                                                                                                              Memberships
Our plastic-free goal is meant to transform our industry, not just our own assortment of products.                            Grove revisits its memberships annually to participate in action-
In order to do this, we know that Grove needs to actively participate in relevant industry                                    oriented groups of like-minded companies and organizations:
dialogues and conversations about relevant legislation, such as the proposed Break Free
from Plastic Pollution Bill. Making our voice heard in all places where these conversations our
happening is part of our responsibility in driving change. We do this in several ways: memberships,
advocacy and communications.

                                                                                                                              Advocacy
                                                                                                                              Grove is proud to support the Plastics Free California Ballot Initiative,
                                                                                                                              the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Bill, and other state and national
                                                                                                                              advocacy efforts to avoid single-use plastic, increase recycling, and
                                                                                                                              address plastic pollution. We’re also part of the BeautyCounter
                                                                                                                              Counteract Coalition, a collective of like-minded businesses in the
                                                                                                                              personal-care and beauty industries that are eager to see more
                                                                                                                              health-protective laws passed in Washington, DC.

                                                                                                                              Communications
                                                                                                                              Finding ways to amplify our message is a key tenet of our brand
                                                                                                                              marketing, communications and public relations strategy. In 2021 our
                                                                                                                              CEO highlighted the challenge Grove poses to the CPG industry in
                                                                                                                              mainstream media interviews, speaking opportunities and an Op-Ed
                                                                                                                              that ran in Fast Company on July 6th calling out our industry for filling
                                                                                                                              the commons with plastic.
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FORESTS & FIBER

How can home
essentials protect the
natural environment?
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INTRODUCTION: FORESTS & FIBER

                                Trees belong in
                                healthy forests.
                                Every second, 1,400 square feet of the Canadian
                                boreal is clearcut.*
                                We love trees so much that we want to keep them             otherwise. While we continue to make progress
                                healthy in forests, where they already exist—               towards planting 1M trees, we know we can’t
                                storing carbon, keeping soil healthy, providing             reforest the planet on our own. New research
                                habitats and supporting planetary health. In                shows that reforestation is not without its own
                                our industry, you’ll hear a lot about planting              sustainability challenges.
                                trees—including from us. (Grove has committed to
                                planting 1M trees by 2022.) The difference? Most            We can play a part in building a more sustainable
                                of our competitors are planting trees because               industry by creating and selling items that
                                their business relies on cutting them down.                 decrease the amount of fiber-based products
                                                                                            consumed on a daily basis— as well as by
                                In fact, every second, 1,400 square feet of the             building conservation into our business model.
                                Canadian boreal forest is clearcut—a footprint              For example, by replacing conventional paper
                                the size of a small house—in part, to make toilet           products with our Seedling line of bamboo-based
                                paper. (Our favorite research, The Issue with               paper towels and toilet paper, we’re helping (and
                                Tissue, comes from the Natural Resources Defense            hoping) to save some of the trees cut down every
                                Council and we strongly encourage a read.) A                day for household paper. We’re also innovating
                                tree planted is nowhere near equivalent to a tree           where we can, expanding our tree-free, bamboo-
                                cut down in any meaningful way—from carbon                  based line into compostable kitchen wipes, facial
                                capture to soil health to wildlife protection or            tissues, napkins and more.
Image: Canadian Boreal Forest   *Source: National Resources Defense Council.
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INTRODUCTION: FORESTS & FIBER (CONTINUED)

This year, we’ve extended our work around                                                certification group, Palm Done Right, to institute
reforestation. Beyond tree planting, we’re more                                          industry-leading practices.
honestly examining our impact. Specifically,
as we transition out of plastic, we want to                                              Success in this part of our business means that
ensure that we don’t adopt alternatives                                                  our products and packaging are contributing
linked to deforestation. As part of this work,                                           to reforestation, never deforestation or
we’re collaborating with leading nonprofit                                               degradation. We also value conservation above
organization Canopy to develop an anti-                                                  restoration and are actively looking for ways
deforestation and Responsible Fiber Policy, and                                          where our business can reinforce these aims.
we’re joining the Pack4Good network.

We’re also thinking about soil health,
conservation and biodiversity. We’re asking
questions, like: How can our small but motivated
business support planetary health, climate and
wildlife through its purchasing decisions, supply
chain and partnerships?

We’re at the start of this exploration, but
we’ve had meaningful pilots. With Presidio
Graduate School, we’re exploring how we can
institute regeneratively sourced raw materials.
In ongoing work with Project Drawdown’s
Drawdown Labs, we’re examining nature-based
solutions. Lastly, we’re focused on creating a
framework for palm oil, working with leading

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GOALS AND MILESTONES

1M Trees Planted by 2022
We believe that household essentials shouldn’t come at the expense of the planet. Grove’s                Upon maturity, the 230,000 trees that we planted in 2020 (bringing
reforestation strategy aims to align purpose with profit by the positive impact made through our         our current total to 635,000 trees planted to date*) will not
Seedling line, through our non-profit partnerships, and with voluntary carbon offsets. We’re proud       only restore forests, but also provide ecosystem benefits to their
to work with the Arbor Day Foundation to restore areas of critical deforestation around the U.S.         communities on an annual basis. We’re on track to plant 1 million trees
                                                                                                         in the U.S. by 2022 with the Arbor Day Foundation.
This past year, we published our first Responsible Fiber Policy and joined Canopy and Palm Done
Right in ensuring our practices aligned with industry best practices. We also joined 1 Trillion Trees,
the Taskforce on Nature Related Climate Disclosures as an observer.
                                                                                                                        635,000                                                   209,516
                                                                                                                 TREES PLANTED TO DATE* IN                               TONS OF CO2 WILL BE
                                                                                                                 LOCATIONS ACROSS THE U.S.                            SEQUESTERED BY THOSE TREES

                                                                                                                            11,491                                   28,271,684,600
                                                                                                                      POUNDS OF AIR                                          GALLONS OF RAINFALL
                                                                                                                POLLUTION WILL BE REMOVED                                    WILL BE INTERCEPTED**

                                                                                                         COMING SOON
                                                                                                         100% FSC-Certified Paper Products by 2022
                                                                                                         By the end of 2022, all paper products used to package and ship our
                                                                                                         products will be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®).
                                                                                                         We’ve also joined Prana’s Responsible Packaging Working Group to
                                                                                                         collaborate with like-minded peers.
                                                                                                         *Metrics as of 6/30/2021
                                                                                                         **For more information on this metric, please see How Trees Can Retain Stormwater Runoff.

 Image: Forest Canopy
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GOALS AND MILESTONES

635,000 Trees and Counting                                                                                                                         Trees Planted by State

                                                                                                                                                   Washington             Mississippi
                                                                                                                                                   LARCH ES, PIN ES,      PIN ES
                                                                                                                                                   AN D FIR
                    WA: 14,245
                                                                                                                                                                          Georgia
                 OR: 5,180                                                                            MI: 30,165
                                                                                                                                                   Oregon                 LON G LEAF PINES
                                                                                                                                                   FIRS

                    CA: 36,000
                                                                                                                                       PA: 5,000                          Pennsylvania
                                                                                                                                                   California             OAK, H EM LOCK,
                                                                                                                                                   FIR, PINE AN D CEDAR   CH ESTN UT, CH ERRY,
                                                                                                     OH: 23,000                                                           LOCUST, AS PEN ,
                                                                                                                                                   Texas                  M APLE, WALNUT,
                                                                                                                                                                          AN D POPLAR
                                                                                                               WV: 11,000
                                                                                                                                                   PIN ES
                                                                                                             GA: 75,000                                                   West Virginia
                                                                                                                                                   Michigan               NATIVE S PRUCE,
                                                                                             TX: 20,000                          NC: 8,490         PIN ES                 CH ESTN UT,
                                                                                                                                                                          CH OKEBERRY,
                                                                                                                                                                          AS PEN, ALDER, AN D
                                                                                               MS: 281,155         FL: 125,765                     Ohio                   CH ERRY
                                                                                                                                                   OAK, CH ESTN UT,
                                                                                                                                                   CH ERRY, H ICKORY,
                                                                                                                                                   WALN UT, M APLE,
                                                                                                                                                                          North Carolina
                                                                                                                                                   PIN E, POPLAR, AND     LON G LEAF PINES
                                                                                                                                                   PERS IM MON
                                                                                                                                                                          Florida
                                                                                                                                                                          LON G LEAF PINES

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OUR STRATEGY

                                              Focus on protection
                                              and conservation.
                                              We’re examining our supply chain through
                                              production, packaging, and shipping.
                                              Protection and Conservation                                material sourcing to prioritize conservation and
                                              The home essentials industry is deeply dependent           regeneration across all areas of our business.
                                              on fiber-based products. As we transition out of
                                              plastic, we have to find truly sustainable solutions       Principles of regenerative agriculture have
                                              to procure fiber and natural materials. We’re              been in practice for hundreds of years amongst
                                              prioritizing raw materials that regenerate quickly         indigenous communities around the world.
                                              and don’t contribute to forest degradation or              As their inherent value becomes more widely
                                              deforestation as a regrettable alternative.                acknowledged, these principles offer practical
                                                                                                         applications within supply chains.
                                              We’re trying to find a meaningful way to
                                              showcase our business as an engine for habitat             Regenerative Coconut Oil
                                              conservation rather than destruction and loss.             With the intention of incorporating regenerative
                                              We’re actively exploring how we can use all                practices into sourcing for key Grove branded
                                              levers available to us—from product design to              products, we partnered with Presidio Graduate
                                              certification, sourcing practices, and carbon              School to do an in-depth study of our coconut oil,
                                              offsets—to protect the world’s most valuable               exploring potential ingredients available to us.
                                              resources. Our ultimate goal is for fiber and

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OUR STRATEGY (CONTINUED)

While we found no new sources of regenerative                                             As we dig deeper on palm to understand all
coconut oil for immediate transition, we were                                             applications and formulations that incorporate
pleasantly surprised to discover that some of our                                         palm-derived ingredients, we’re building a
suppliers had already adopted practices such as                                           framework that we we’ll share, along with our
row-cropping—planting in rows wide enough to                                              progress, in next year’s report. As always, we
allow tilling, protecting soil quality.                                                   aim to work with suppliers, vendors and brand
                                                                                          networks to improve our industry rather than use
We also discovered social impacts previously                                              punitive action.
unknown to us, such as women-led cooperative
suppliers. The coconut oil project provided
actionable next steps, and we continue to
move forward with the goal of increasing
regeneratively sourced ingredients.

Responsible Palm Oil
Beyond our positive impact, we are also
increasing the rigor with which we track our
raw materials sourcing. Within our supplier
guide, we require that all products containing
palm oil ensure either certification by Palm
Done Right (of which Grove is proud to be a
member), Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
(RSPO) or labeling with other verified standards
of traceability, such as Dr. Bronner’s Fair Trade
partnership with small farms in Ghana.

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FORESTS AND FIBER

Products &
Packaging                               100% FSC®                             1M trees would be saved
                                        CERTIFIED BAMBOO                      IF EVERY AMERICAN SWITCHED ONE ROLL OF TOILET PAPER IN THEIR HOME TO SEEDLING
Seedling by Grove is the first and
                                        USED IN OUR SEEDLING BY               Unlike industry competitors who deplete the environment, Seedling is a model of regenerative business.
only tree-positive paper brand,         GROVE PRODUCTS
illustrating how our industry can be
                                        Our bamboo is all certified by the
a force for positive impact rather
                                        Forest Stewardship Council (FSC),
than continued depletion of natural
                                        the highest standard of forestry,
resources. Every Seedling purchase
                                        which requires that ecosystems
supports replanting forests across      remain intact for truly sustainable
the U.S., making Seedling the first     methods of forest management
brand of paper to plant trees           and habitat protection.
without ever cutting them down.
In addition, the majority of our
carbon offsets are allocated towards
                                        3 months
                                        THE TIME IT TAKES
conservation of the Canadian Boreal     FOR BAMBOO TO GROW BACK
forest — the largest remaining intact   AFTER HARVESTING
forest globally, but still subject to
                                        On average, trees take 20 years
logging to make conventional paper
                                        to grow back after harvesting.
goods. (For an in-depth look at the
                                        Bamboo takes 3 months.
Darkwoods Forest Offset project,        Seedling provides a sustainable
please see p. 38 of last year’s         alternative to conventional
sustainability report.)                 paper products.
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HEALTHIER HOMES

How can we empower our
customers to lead healthier
lives at home?
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INTRODUCTION: HEALTHIER HOMES

                                 Be safe and sustainable.
                                 Our customers overwhelmingly choose Grove for
                                 safe and certified products they can trust.
                                 Safety and sustainability are the primary reasons            Across Grove—from our own products to our
                                 our customers choose and stay with us, and we                carefully vetted third-party brands—we prioritize
                                 hold ourselves responsible to raising the bar                the highest standards across ingredient quality,
                                 on both fronts. We hope Grove can serve as                   product development, and social welfare. We view
                                 a microcosm for greater decision making and                  human and environmental health as inextricably
                                 environmental awareness.                                     linked, and we prioritize the wellbeing of both. We
                                                                                              work closely with trusted third parties, including
                                 In the U.S., innovation often outpaces regulation,           the Environmental Working Group (EWG),
                                 specifically in the world of chemicals. Chemical             Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US
                                 regulation for consumer products takes an                    Department of Agriculture (USDA) for testing and
                                 “innocent until proven guilty” approach, given the           verification. Our in-house formulation scientists
                                 herculean task of isolating and proving causality            and experts have decades of industry experience,
                                 between use of chemicals and specific health                 and they’re tasked with prioritizing efficiency with
                                 outcomes. As we discussed in this report last year           no compromises on ingredients suspected to be
                                 (but continues to be the case) it can and does               detrimental to human and environmental health.
                                 take decades to ban chemicals with known links               We also prioritize plant-based formulations
                                 to serious health issues, such as BPA.                       wherever possible.

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GOALS AND MILESTONES

No Harmful Chemicals
                                                                                                         UP NEXT
Across our site, our products will never include anything on our anti-ingredients list, and everything   Safer Products Everywhere
we carry will always meet our rigorous standards. By prioritizing plant-based ingredients, in            100% of our formulated Grove Co., Peach and Superbloom fragrances
2019, the Grove Co. Brand avoided over 760,000 pounds of synthetic ingredients across laundry            are transparent. We ask our industry to raise its standards as well.
detergent, hand soap, and dish soap collections. In 2020, the Grove Co. brand avoided 1,495,893          Through advocacy, we support legislation requiring ingredient
pounds of synthetic ingredients across our cleaning concentrates, laundry, hand soap, and dish           transparency and increasing standards around chemical safety within
                                                                                                         consumer products and cosmetics.
soap collections. This is 734,380 pounds more than we avoided in 2019. The Grove standard lists all
the anti- ingredients you’ll never find in our products, from parabens to phosphates and triclosan.
                                                                                                                             100%                                               760,000
                                                                                                              TRANSPARENT FRAGRANCES FOR                                LBS. SYNTHETIC INGREDIENTS
                                                                                                             PEACH, SUPERBLOOM & GROVE CO.                                    AVOIDED IN 2019*

                                                                                                                       1,495,893                                                +734,380
                                                                                                                 LBS. SYNTHETIC INGREDIENTS                                   LBS. SYNTHETICS
                                                                                                                      AVOIDED IN 2020**                                   AVOIDED YEAR-OVER-YEAR

                                                                                                         We never use synthetic fragrance, just essential oils and other plant
                                                                                                         extracts. In 2020, we advocated for ingredient transparency by
                                                                                                         supporting three bills related to ingredient disclosure at the state
                                                                                                         (California) and federal (U.S.) levels. We’re also providing Safety Data
                                                                                                         Sheets for Grove Co. home care products, publicly available on our site
                                                                                                         as of Q3, 2021.
                                                                                                         *2019 numbers include laundry detergent, hand soap, and dish soap collections.
                                                                                                         **2020 numbers include Grove Co. cleaning concentrates, laundry, hand soap, and dish soap collections.
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The Grove Standard
                                                                                                       We’re Committed To:
Our owned products are developed with careful consideration for efficacy and safety. All
products meet the Grove standard, which means they prioritize plant-based ingredients, are                  Plant-Based Formulas
                                                                                                            We lead with organic and plant-based ingredients whenever
cruelty free, and are free of synthetic colors, synthetic fragrances, parabens, phthalates, BPA, and        they are available.
toxic varnishes. We provide full ingredient transparency because we have nothing to hide.
                                                                                                            100% Cruelty-Free
                                                                                                            We work exclusively with Leaping Bunny certified manufacturers
                                                                                                            to ensure everything we offer is 100% cruelty-free.

                                                                                                            Ethical Supply Chains
                                                                                                            We review supplier factories for safety and well-being according
                                                                                                            to the international Business Social Compliance Initiative.

                                                                                                            Ingredient Transparency
                                                                                                            We never use synthetic fragrance or any other harmful ingredients.

                                                                                                            Sustainable Materials
                                                                                                            We constantly seek ways to minimize plastic in our products
                                                                                                            and packaging.

                                                                                                            Industry Expertise
                                                                                                            We’ve guided by industry experts with over 100 years of
                                                                                                            combined experience.

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HEALTHIER HOMES

Our Anti-Ingredient List
A collection of components you won’t find in Grove Collaborative products.

Ammonia           A polishing agent found in glass cleaner, ammonia can cause          Parabens         A preservative found in fragrances and personal care products
                  irritation in skin and eyes as well asthma.                                           known to mimic estrogen and possibly be an endocrine disruptor.

BHA/BHT           A preservative found in anti-aging skin care products known to be    Phosphates       A builder found in detergents and stain removal products known
                  a carcinogen and skin irritant, as well as known aquatic toxicity.                    to be a skin irritant and to cause excessive algae growth in water,
                                                                                                        killing other organisms.

Chlorine          A disinfectant found in household cleaners known to be a
                                                                                       Phthalates       A group of chemicals found in personal care products known to be
                  respiratory irritant and suspected to be a thyroid disruptor,
                                                                                                        hormone disruptors and irritants.
                  forming carcinogenic byproducts.

Formaldehyde      A preservative found in personal care products known to be a         Quaternium-15,   A preservative found in personal care products (such as shampoos,
                  carcinogen and skin irritant.                                        DMDM Hydantoin   face cleansers, and body wash) which releases formaldehyde, a
                                                                                                        known carcinogen.

Cyclomethicones   A non-biodegradable emollient found in lotions, creams, and
                                                                                       Triclosan        An antibacterial found in dish soaps, counter top cleaners, and
(D4/D5/D6)        shampoos known to cause reproductive harm.
                                                                                                        hand sanitizers suspected to be a hormone disruptor and known to
                                                                                                        have aquatic toxicity.
Octinoxate,       A UV blocker found in chemical sunscreens that is a possible
Oxyben- zone,     allergen and known to be toxic to coral reefs.
Sulisobenzone
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