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Tractor Supply firmly believes in the importance of managing water sustainably and putting in the forethought and effort to build a better tomorrow for Life Out Here.
About this Report In this report, we share our approach to our business and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts—including the disclosure of metrics aligned with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).
Our Stewardship Program At Tractor Supply, we know that our Team Members, customers, vendors, supply chain partners, communities and shareholders care deeply about what companies do for their communities, for their people and for the environment.
Since launching our Stewardship Program in minimizing our environmental impact while serving our customers.
Materiality Assessment In late material impacts that our business has on the planet and a global community of stakeholders, and we plan to report the findings from this assessment in future disclosures.
CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index United Nations Sustainable Development Goals The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call to action for all countries, developed and developing, to engage in a global partnership that promotes peace and prosperity for all people and the planet.
They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality and spur economic growth, all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
We are committed to sourcing more renewable energy and reducing the sources of emissions within our value chain.
Enhanced our focus on our Scope engagement to drive down value chain emissions.
Climate Action Efforts to reduce our carbon emissions and manage resources more effectively are integral to how we do business.
Set net zero emissions in operations by emissions from our operations 20% by 2025 and 50% by 2030.
Out Here, we are committed to promote conservation and sustainable use of the land.
Established a water conservation goal to reduce by 2025.
These stores provide an immersive and welcoming learning environment to effectively develop competencies and skills required for each role.
CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index Total Rewards at Tractor Supply We believe that serving our Team Members will equip them to better serve our customers.
You can find a summary of the actions taken over the last two years on our COVID-due to the ever-changing environment, but this represents the scope and scale of our commitment to protect those we care most about.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Honoring the unique contributions our Team Members, customers, communities and suppliers make to our company and our culture Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) is a business imperative.
The foundation of our DE&I strategy is to have a welcoming environment and to ensure the power of diversity, equity and inclusion is experienced every day by our Team Members, customers, communities and suppliers.
Team Member DE&I Strategy Our DE&I Strategy for Team Members states that we will attract, engage, develop and retain Team Members with backgrounds that reflect the diversity of our communities and customers.
We will accomplish this through Diversity Recruiting efforts, through Team Member Inclusion & Connection and through DE&I Training & Development.
Diversity Recruitment We know that reflecting the communities we serve starts with our recruitment efforts.
Our diversity recruiting strategy comprises three main elements: 1.
Accountability: To measure our success and track progress, we created a Diversity Dashboard for our senior leaders to understand the workforce representation data, and how Team Members are mirroring the community.
In a Diversity Recruiting Manager who focuses on helping our leaders hire diverse talent and a Campus Recruiting Manager focused on recruiting from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other colleges and universities that support diverse students.
Tractor Supply is committed to providing enhanced disclosure of the racial, ethnic and gender diversity of our workforce.
CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index Customer Inclusion Strategy Our DE&I Strategy for Customers states that we will know and celebrate our diverse customers and create a welcoming and inclusive experience.
We promise to treat everyone with respect, creating a welcoming environment where all are equal.
Marketing Toolkit: We developed a Diversity Marketing Toolkit for our stores and distribution centers to use to foster engagement between Team Members and communities.
Supplier Diversity Strategy Our DE&I Strategy for Supplier Diversity states that we will partner with certified diverse suppliers who can meet our customers’ needs by providing legendary service and great products at everyday low prices.
This year we began developing our supplier diversity program by appointing an initiative owner and establishing a supplier diversity committee.
To date, the committee has measured our current supplier diversity partnership and spend.
The next step is to develop a strategy to increase our supplier diversity partnerships and spend year-over-year to meet our goal of diverse supplier spending.
CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index Enabling Sustainable Lifestyles We’re committed to being an integral part of our customers’ lives by being the most dependable supplier of Out Here lifestyle solutions.
Our customers can also learn the finer points of composting—so they can simultaneously reduce food waste and get the rich organic nutrients of compost onto their garden faster by helping speed up compost pile decomposition.
Or maybe they’d like some free water for that garden.
We’ll tell them how and where to install rain barrels that can capture hundreds of gallons of water in the course of a year.
And speaking of water, our Life Out Here blog gives Tractor Supply customers the details of the right— and wrong—way to water a lawn.
Learning about Kamal’s efforts to promote sustainable agriculture and bee conservation with his students, Tractor Supply partnered with Sankofa Farms to provide the materials necessary to keep their honeybee population happy and healthy.
Participating in charitable activities is core to upholding this commitment, from being a national sponsor of the National FFA Organization to sponsoring a pet food drive for a local animal shelter.
Tractor Supply is pleased to endorse USFRA’s Decade of Ag Vision, to create a more resilient, restorative, economically viable and climate-smart agricultural system that produces abundant and nutritious food, natural fiber and clean energy for a sustainable and vibrant future across the United States.
What started more than 100 years ago as a program to introduce young people to new agricultural technology has evolved into the nation’s largest youth development organization.
Cul Since 2018, Tractor Supply has supported Cul2vate’s efforts to find nutritional food sources and agriculture-based training for those needing assistance by providing monetary support, product donations and volunteer support.
In fact, the Pet and Animal Division of Tractor Supply has grown to be the largest part of our business.
Since with Miranda Lambert’s MuttNation Foundation to host a pet supplies drive in support of local animal shelters nationwide.
Tractor Supply also takes this opportunity to shine a spotlight on animal organizations through the “Rescue Your Rescue” social media contest in which customers nominate and vote for their favorite animal rescues.
The Livestock Conservancy We partner with The Livestock Conservancy to support conservation efforts for endangered livestock and poultry breeds, while educating Team Members and customers on how to care for rare breeds.
Tennessee Flooding: We donated to the Red Cross of Tennessee to support flood relief efforts after historic flooding in Waverly, Tennessee.
We also worked with vendor partners to get much-needed resources like water bottles into the hands of volunteers.
Our Vision Tractor Supply believes that a healthy environment, properly managed resources and vibrant communities are keys to a secure and prosperous future.
Tractor Supply believes our responsibility as stewards of the land is to minimize our environmental impact while supporting our customers in their journey to become more sustainable to preserve Life Out Here.
The Environment A healthy planet is vital to healthy communities.
We are committed to being a company that has a positive environmental impact and are dedicated to finding innovative solutions for the betterment of future generations and the planet.
By supporting customers in their pursuit of a sustainable lifestyle and improving our operational footprint, we are creating resiliency for our company, shareholders and Team Members.
CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index Creating a Sustainable Planet Tractor Supply believes a sustainable planet begins with a healthy environment, properly managed resources and vibrant communities.
In recognizing climate change as an imperative, we announced aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction goals that will challenge us well into the future as we pledge to become carbon neutral by 2040.
Launching our next phase in this journey means taking a holistic view of sustainability, embedding it throughout the company as we seek ways to reduce our impact to the environment and involving the communities we serve in all decision-making.
As an additional step in this journey, in adopted an Environmental, Safety & Sustainability Policy that provides clarity and direction towards our path ahead.
, Tractor Supply operations are evaluated for applicability to federal, state and local environmental laws every three years.
The EMP, which is based on the tenets of our Environmental, Safety & Sustainability Policy, is designed to reduce risk of non-compliance with environmental laws and regulation through the systematic review of regulatory requirements.
Environmental risk is further reduced by implementing documented program procedures, training, inspections and periodic assessments for compliance.
Environmental compliance requirements and identified risks are communicated to leadership at the distribution centers and to the Vice President of Compliance, who reports to the General Counsel of Tractor Supply.
A year later, in 80,000,000 kWh of renewable energy by 2022.
This was achieved by purchasing either Renewable Energy Credits or Green Tariffs, where available.
We achieved both goals ahead of schedule with a Scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction achieved in 2021 compared to our 2015 base year.
In this next phase of our sustainability journey, we will increase efforts to procure renewable energy and continue investments in energy efficiency and cleaner technologies.
To avoid future emissions, we will incorporate better design in both stores and distribution centers.
This includes new vendor engagement that will allow us to replace modeled Scope intensity data while identifying interventions to drive down value chain emissions.
TCFD Report In on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) report which discusses our approach to evaluating and managing climate change risks and opportunities and provides additional details on how we plan to achieve our new net zero emissions goals.
We prepared a carbon reduction roadmap in goals that include strategically pursuing multiple opportunities for renewable energy and energy efficient technologies.
Our roadmap identifies the quantifiable benefit of emissions reduction by discrete projects across our building portfolio.
This plan includes opportunities in daylight harvesting through skylights, improved energy consumption through efficient HVAC systems and the use of renewable energy through the use of photovoltaic solar panels.
Tractor Supply has joined the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance (CEBA).
We believe the benefits provided by this partnership will strengthen our commitment to renewable energy and the transition to a more sustainable energy future.
Additionally in Tractor Supply became an EPA Green Power Partner to show our continued commitment to using green power.
Sustainable Operations and Buildings In coupled with dimmable lights and solar arrays, for potential changes to building plans.
Refrigerators and Coolers Tractor Supply has replaced all legacy beverage coolers throughout stores with new energy-efficient coolers that use a refrigerant with a much lower Global Warming Potential (GWP1).
In addition, the entire cabinet structure is foamed-in-place using ecomate, a high density, polyurethane insulation that has zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) and zero global warming potential (GWP).
We purposely chose those locations to evaluate how weather impacts performance.
CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index A Smarter Way to Ship By prioritizing product supply close to Tractor Supply Distribution Centers and stores and maximizing every truckload, we have eliminated over six million shipping miles from the road over the last 24 months.
SmartWay Transport is a public-private initiative between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, large and small trucking companies, rail carriers, logistics companies, commercial manufacturers, retailers and other federal and state agencies.
We also integrated the use of intermodal, or rail transportation, when appropriate, which has taken trucks off the road and reduced fuel use.
While our partnerships and systems have significantly reduced diesel fuel consumption and pollution, we will continue to implement new practices to reduce our environmental impact as we serve customers across the country.
These energy-efficient facilities include our Store Support Center in Brentwood, Tenn. (Ariz. (650,000 square feet) and Frankfort, N.Y. (approximately 930,000 square feet).
CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index Water Over the past few years, we have expanded customer offerings to include self-serve pet washing stations at Tractor Supply stores, grooming services at Petsense stores and Garden Centers at a limited number of Tractor Supply stores.
To help manage the resulting increased demand for water, we engage in several companywide initiatives to reduce our water usage, including the use of low-flow devices, which require 25% less water than regular flow fixtures.
When we identify high-usage stores via our bill pay platform, we work with the store to identify the source of the high-water use and work to remediate the situation.
Implementing more timely feedback to stores has resulted in a reduction in water waste.
In areas of high or extremely high-water stress such as Arizona and New Mexico, we are working with the local water utility to establish baselines and further our efforts to use water efficiently and responsibly.
Waste and Recycling At Tractor Supply, we know that we must be good stewards of the land and of our natural resources so that our children and future generations will have the same opportunities we enjoy today.
Our sustainability program is built on a foundation of compliance with environmental laws and regulations that are monitored under our Environmental Management Program.
That’s why we’re always looking for ways to become more efficient, eliminate waste, reduce our impact on the environment, and also provide our customers with easy ways to reduce their environmental impact.
The following waste and recycling data applies to our store footprint only.
Solid waste is produced as part of our normal business operations.
We continue to evaluate waste data capture and engage with our solid waste service providers to understand opportunities to increase diversion rates.
Hazardous Waste: Tractor Supply sells a wide variety of consumer products.
Some of the products we sell, when returned by customers or accidently spilled, may become hazardous waste.
We developed a hazardous waste management program to ensure unsalable products are properly managed and disposed of in accordance with Recently, Tractor Supply became a member of The Sustainability Consortium.
This program provides our stores and distribution centers with appropriate waste handling instructions.
We also have national contracts with licensed waste vendors to ensure the safe transport and disposal of waste managed through this program.
It’s good for the environment and contributes income to the bottom line.

Tractor Supply firmly believes in the importance of managing water sustainably and putting in the forethought and effort to build a better tomorrow for Life Out Here.

About this Report In this report, we share our approach to our business and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts—including the disclosure of metrics aligned with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

Our Stewardship Program At Tractor Supply, we know that our Team Members, customers, vendors, supply chain partners, communities and shareholders care deeply about what companies do for their communities, for their people and for the environment.

Since launching our Stewardship Program in minimizing our environmental impact while serving our customers.

Materiality Assessment In late material impacts that our business has on the planet and a global community of stakeholders, and we plan to report the findings from this assessment in future disclosures.

CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index United Nations Sustainable Development Goals The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call to action for all countries, developed and developing, to engage in a global partnership that promotes peace and prosperity for all people and the planet.

They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality and spur economic growth, all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

We are committed to sourcing more renewable energy and reducing the sources of emissions within our value chain.

Enhanced our focus on our Scope engagement to drive down value chain emissions.

Climate Action Efforts to reduce our carbon emissions and manage resources more effectively are integral to how we do business.

Set net zero emissions in operations by emissions from our operations 20% by 2025 and 50% by 2030.

Out Here, we are committed to promote conservation and sustainable use of the land.

Established a water conservation goal to reduce by 2025.

These stores provide an immersive and welcoming learning environment to effectively develop competencies and skills required for each role.

CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index Total Rewards at Tractor Supply We believe that serving our Team Members will equip them to better serve our customers.

You can find a summary of the actions taken over the last two years on our COVID-due to the ever-changing environment, but this represents the scope and scale of our commitment to protect those we care most about.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Honoring the unique contributions our Team Members, customers, communities and suppliers make to our company and our culture Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) is a business imperative.

The foundation of our DE&I strategy is to have a welcoming environment and to ensure the power of diversity, equity and inclusion is experienced every day by our Team Members, customers, communities and suppliers.

Team Member DE&I Strategy Our DE&I Strategy for Team Members states that we will attract, engage, develop and retain Team Members with backgrounds that reflect the diversity of our communities and customers.

We will accomplish this through Diversity Recruiting efforts, through Team Member Inclusion & Connection and through DE&I Training & Development.

Diversity Recruitment We know that reflecting the communities we serve starts with our recruitment efforts.

Our diversity recruiting strategy comprises three main elements: 1.

Accountability: To measure our success and track progress, we created a Diversity Dashboard for our senior leaders to understand the workforce representation data, and how Team Members are mirroring the community.

In a Diversity Recruiting Manager who focuses on helping our leaders hire diverse talent and a Campus Recruiting Manager focused on recruiting from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other colleges and universities that support diverse students.

Tractor Supply is committed to providing enhanced disclosure of the racial, ethnic and gender diversity of our workforce.

CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index Customer Inclusion Strategy Our DE&I Strategy for Customers states that we will know and celebrate our diverse customers and create a welcoming and inclusive experience.

We promise to treat everyone with respect, creating a welcoming environment where all are equal.

Marketing Toolkit: We developed a Diversity Marketing Toolkit for our stores and distribution centers to use to foster engagement between Team Members and communities.

Supplier Diversity Strategy Our DE&I Strategy for Supplier Diversity states that we will partner with certified diverse suppliers who can meet our customers’ needs by providing legendary service and great products at everyday low prices.

This year we began developing our supplier diversity program by appointing an initiative owner and establishing a supplier diversity committee.

To date, the committee has measured our current supplier diversity partnership and spend.

The next step is to develop a strategy to increase our supplier diversity partnerships and spend year-over-year to meet our goal of diverse supplier spending.

CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index Enabling Sustainable Lifestyles We’re committed to being an integral part of our customers’ lives by being the most dependable supplier of Out Here lifestyle solutions.

Our customers can also learn the finer points of composting—so they can simultaneously reduce food waste and get the rich organic nutrients of compost onto their garden faster by helping speed up compost pile decomposition.

Or maybe they’d like some free water for that garden.

We’ll tell them how and where to install rain barrels that can capture hundreds of gallons of water in the course of a year.

And speaking of water, our Life Out Here blog gives Tractor Supply customers the details of the right— and wrong—way to water a lawn.

Learning about Kamal’s efforts to promote sustainable agriculture and bee conservation with his students, Tractor Supply partnered with Sankofa Farms to provide the materials necessary to keep their honeybee population happy and healthy.

Participating in charitable activities is core to upholding this commitment, from being a national sponsor of the National FFA Organization to sponsoring a pet food drive for a local animal shelter.

Tractor Supply is pleased to endorse USFRA’s Decade of Ag Vision, to create a more resilient, restorative, economically viable and climate-smart agricultural system that produces abundant and nutritious food, natural fiber and clean energy for a sustainable and vibrant future across the United States.

What started more than 100 years ago as a program to introduce young people to new agricultural technology has evolved into the nation’s largest youth development organization.

Cul Since 2018, Tractor Supply has supported Cul2vate’s efforts to find nutritional food sources and agriculture-based training for those needing assistance by providing monetary support, product donations and volunteer support.

In fact, the Pet and Animal Division of Tractor Supply has grown to be the largest part of our business.

Since with Miranda Lambert’s MuttNation Foundation to host a pet supplies drive in support of local animal shelters nationwide.

Tractor Supply also takes this opportunity to shine a spotlight on animal organizations through the “Rescue Your Rescue” social media contest in which customers nominate and vote for their favorite animal rescues.

The Livestock Conservancy We partner with The Livestock Conservancy to support conservation efforts for endangered livestock and poultry breeds, while educating Team Members and customers on how to care for rare breeds.

Tennessee Flooding: We donated to the Red Cross of Tennessee to support flood relief efforts after historic flooding in Waverly, Tennessee.

We also worked with vendor partners to get much-needed resources like water bottles into the hands of volunteers.

Our Vision Tractor Supply believes that a healthy environment, properly managed resources and vibrant communities are keys to a secure and prosperous future.

Tractor Supply believes our responsibility as stewards of the land is to minimize our environmental impact while supporting our customers in their journey to become more sustainable to preserve Life Out Here.

The Environment A healthy planet is vital to healthy communities.

We are committed to being a company that has a positive environmental impact and are dedicated to finding innovative solutions for the betterment of future generations and the planet.

By supporting customers in their pursuit of a sustainable lifestyle and improving our operational footprint, we are creating resiliency for our company, shareholders and Team Members.

CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index Creating a Sustainable Planet Tractor Supply believes a sustainable planet begins with a healthy environment, properly managed resources and vibrant communities.

In recognizing climate change as an imperative, we announced aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction goals that will challenge us well into the future as we pledge to become carbon neutral by 2040.

Launching our next phase in this journey means taking a holistic view of sustainability, embedding it throughout the company as we seek ways to reduce our impact to the environment and involving the communities we serve in all decision-making.

As an additional step in this journey, in adopted an Environmental, Safety & Sustainability Policy that provides clarity and direction towards our path ahead.

, Tractor Supply operations are evaluated for applicability to federal, state and local environmental laws every three years.

The EMP, which is based on the tenets of our Environmental, Safety & Sustainability Policy, is designed to reduce risk of non-compliance with environmental laws and regulation through the systematic review of regulatory requirements.

Environmental risk is further reduced by implementing documented program procedures, training, inspections and periodic assessments for compliance.

Environmental compliance requirements and identified risks are communicated to leadership at the distribution centers and to the Vice President of Compliance, who reports to the General Counsel of Tractor Supply.

A year later, in 80,000,000 kWh of renewable energy by 2022.

This was achieved by purchasing either Renewable Energy Credits or Green Tariffs, where available.

We achieved both goals ahead of schedule with a Scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction achieved in 2021 compared to our 2015 base year.

In this next phase of our sustainability journey, we will increase efforts to procure renewable energy and continue investments in energy efficiency and cleaner technologies.

To avoid future emissions, we will incorporate better design in both stores and distribution centers.

This includes new vendor engagement that will allow us to replace modeled Scope intensity data while identifying interventions to drive down value chain emissions.

TCFD Report In on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) report which discusses our approach to evaluating and managing climate change risks and opportunities and provides additional details on how we plan to achieve our new net zero emissions goals.

We prepared a carbon reduction roadmap in goals that include strategically pursuing multiple opportunities for renewable energy and energy efficient technologies.

Our roadmap identifies the quantifiable benefit of emissions reduction by discrete projects across our building portfolio.

This plan includes opportunities in daylight harvesting through skylights, improved energy consumption through efficient HVAC systems and the use of renewable energy through the use of photovoltaic solar panels.

Tractor Supply has joined the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance (CEBA).

We believe the benefits provided by this partnership will strengthen our commitment to renewable energy and the transition to a more sustainable energy future.

Additionally in Tractor Supply became an EPA Green Power Partner to show our continued commitment to using green power.

Sustainable Operations and Buildings In coupled with dimmable lights and solar arrays, for potential changes to building plans.

Refrigerators and Coolers Tractor Supply has replaced all legacy beverage coolers throughout stores with new energy-efficient coolers that use a refrigerant with a much lower Global Warming Potential (GWP1).

In addition, the entire cabinet structure is foamed-in-place using ecomate, a high density, polyurethane insulation that has zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) and zero global warming potential (GWP).

We purposely chose those locations to evaluate how weather impacts performance.

CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index A Smarter Way to Ship By prioritizing product supply close to Tractor Supply Distribution Centers and stores and maximizing every truckload, we have eliminated over six million shipping miles from the road over the last 24 months.

SmartWay Transport is a public-private initiative between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, large and small trucking companies, rail carriers, logistics companies, commercial manufacturers, retailers and other federal and state agencies.

We also integrated the use of intermodal, or rail transportation, when appropriate, which has taken trucks off the road and reduced fuel use.

While our partnerships and systems have significantly reduced diesel fuel consumption and pollution, we will continue to implement new practices to reduce our environmental impact as we serve customers across the country.

These energy-efficient facilities include our Store Support Center in Brentwood, Tenn. (Ariz. (650,000 square feet) and Frankfort, N.Y. (approximately 930,000 square feet).

CEO Message Overview Team Members Customers Community Environment Supply Chain Governance SASB Index Water Over the past few years, we have expanded customer offerings to include self-serve pet washing stations at Tractor Supply stores, grooming services at Petsense stores and Garden Centers at a limited number of Tractor Supply stores.

To help manage the resulting increased demand for water, we engage in several companywide initiatives to reduce our water usage, including the use of low-flow devices, which require 25% less water than regular flow fixtures.

When we identify high-usage stores via our bill pay platform, we work with the store to identify the source of the high-water use and work to remediate the situation.

Implementing more timely feedback to stores has resulted in a reduction in water waste.

In areas of high or extremely high-water stress such as Arizona and New Mexico, we are working with the local water utility to establish baselines and further our efforts to use water efficiently and responsibly.

Waste and Recycling At Tractor Supply, we know that we must be good stewards of the land and of our natural resources so that our children and future generations will have the same opportunities we enjoy today.

Our sustainability program is built on a foundation of compliance with environmental laws and regulations that are monitored under our Environmental Management Program.

That’s why we’re always looking for ways to become more efficient, eliminate waste, reduce our impact on the environment, and also provide our customers with easy ways to reduce their environmental impact.

The following waste and recycling data applies to our store footprint only.

Solid waste is produced as part of our normal business operations.

We continue to evaluate waste data capture and engage with our solid waste service providers to understand opportunities to increase diversion rates.

Hazardous Waste: Tractor Supply sells a wide variety of consumer products.

Some of the products we sell, when returned by customers or accidently spilled, may become hazardous waste.

We developed a hazardous waste management program to ensure unsalable products are properly managed and disposed of in accordance with Recently, Tractor Supply became a member of The Sustainability Consortium.

This program provides our stores and distribution centers with appropriate waste handling instructions.

We also have national contracts with licensed waste vendors to ensure the safe transport and disposal of waste managed through this program.

It’s good for the environment and contributes income to the bottom line.