Teams throughout TJX work to implement cost-effective strategies and processes to manage the many different types of waste materials resulting from our operations, such as corrugated cardboard and plastic film. We are doing this in several ways, including by eliminating operational waste where feasible and by taking steps to maximize the reuse and recycling of materials in our stores, distribution centers, and certain corporate offices. These efforts support our global goal of working to divert 85% of operational waste from landfill by 2027.

Our global approach to managing operational waste includes efforts to:

• Maximize reuse and recycling of operational waste, of which the majority is corrugated cardboard boxes

• Collaborate with our waste-haulers and certain vendors and suppliers on solutions that improve our ability to divert operational waste materials from landfill

• Communicate on sortation and recycling procedures within stores

• Address single-use plastics in our operations

Progress Against Waste Diversion Goal

• FY25 Global Operational Waste Diversion Rate:¹ 80%

• Since setting our global operational waste diversion goal in 2022, teams have scaled up their efforts to divert waste and have made significant progress toward meeting our goal. Our operations teams are working hard to achieve our 85% global operational waste diversion rate goal by 2027.

Reuse & Recycling in Our Operations

We have many programs across our global business that support our efforts to reuse and recycle the operational waste in our stores, distribution centers, and certain corporate offices. Recycling programs for common items, like cardboard, plastic, paper, aluminum, and glass, have been introduced in various regions where we operate, and we have been working to find new ways to reduce and recycle difficult-to-recycle items, like polystyrene.

We continue to focus on initiatives that support reuse and recycling at our stores, ARRCs, and distribution centers, while also exploring ways to further increase our waste diversion.

• Corrugated cardboard comprises the majority of our operational waste, and in recent years we have been focusing on increasing its reuse and recycling in the U.S. and other regions. Thanks to our ARRC network and back-hauling capabilities, a single corrugated cardboard box in the U.S. can be used to deliver merchandise from our distribution centers to our stores up to three times before it is retired and recycled. In Fiscal 2025, over 27 million units of corrugated cardboard packaging were sent back from our stores, through our network of ARRCs, to be returned to distribution centers for reuse. For cardboard that could not be reused, our U.S. Associates helped us recycle more than 115,000 tons of cardboard through our ARRC network in Fiscal 2025. Following successful pilots through Fiscal 2025, we have begun launching larger, more resilient recycling receptacles at all of our U.S. ARRC-serviced stores for holding and transporting recyclable cardboard back to our ARRC locations. We expect that these larger cardboard recycling receptacles should enable us to better leverage the height of the trucks we use to backhaul material back to our ARRCs, thereby helping us recycle more cardboard.
• Over the years, the flexibility of the ARRC program has enabled us to test new initiatives as we strive to increase the amount of difficult-to-recycle material that can be included in our recycling stream. For example, in Fiscal 2024 in the U.S., we piloted a new process for sorting recyclable plastics in our ARRC-serviced stores, with the goal of increasing our ability to recover and recycle plastic film. The test yielded notable improvements in plastic film recovery, and in Fiscal 2025 we expanded the pilot to all ARRC-serviced stores throughout the U.S. As a result of this and other ongoing initiatives, our network of U.S. stores and ARRCs was able to recycle more than 3,300 tons of plastic film in Fiscal 2025—nearly double the amount recycled the year prior. With the help of our partner, some of the plastic film we recycled was used among other materials to make certain receptacle bins that we currently use for collecting plastic film in the back rooms of our stores.
• Our teams are continuously looking for ways to engage our Associates with recycling. For example, in Fiscal 2025 in Canada, the Facilities team initiated an Associate engagement program to help increase rates of plastic film recycling at the stores.
• TJX Europe backhauls plastic film from all of its stores in the U.K., Ireland, and Germany. Stores in the U.K. and Ireland now also backhaul polystyrene. Once these materials are received back at their ARRC or processing center, they are processed for recycling.

Single-Use Plastics

• In certain distribution centers, we have been working to find ways to reduce or replace certain plastics that traditionally protect merchandise as it is shipped to our stores. For example, distribution centers in Canada have replaced the use of bubble wrap pouches with a fiber-based material. In addition to being recyclable, the fiber-based material has reduced merchandise damage and can be reused by stores to protect merchandise carried home by customers. In the U.S., in lieu of plastic bags, we have been utilizing a more easily recycled, corrugated box insert for the packaging of liquid products during shipping to stores.

• TJX Canada has worked directly with certain vendors in a specific merchandise category to utilize a fiber-based alternative for expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) packaging. The alternative packaging helps protect the merchandise from breakage and is more easily recycled.
• TJX Europe has been working to reduce single-use plastics in offices, processing centers, stores, and e-commerce operations. This has included swapping out plastic tape for paper tape in its e-commerce home deliveries, switching to plastic-free soap sachets and cleaning products in the restrooms and cleaning operations of certain stores and the European home office, and removing single-use plastic refrigerated beverage bottles sold in stores.
• In the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia, we have eliminated almost all single-use, petroleum-based plastic food takeout containers in our home office cafeterias and instead utilize predominantly compostable or reusable containers.