Greentech Lead America: SC Johnson, a leading household cleaning, storage, air care and pest control products, has been on track to achieve its 2016 environmental goals, according to its 2012 sustainability report.
The highlights of SC Johnson 2012 sustainability report include the following:
Using its internally developed and patented Greenlist process, SC Johnson continued to phase out less-desirable ingredients in its product formulations in favor of better choices that have a lesser impact on the environment.
As part of its award-winning ingredient disclosure program, the company launched an industry-leading Fragrance Palette in North America, providing consumers with an online resource that discloses fragrance ingredients used in SC Johnson products.
SC Johnson launched a consumer initiative to study and increase recycling by families.
The company continued progress against its goal of becoming landfill neutral by 2016, which includes using less packaging and more post-consumer-recycled content.
SC Johnson also increased clean energy use with innovative technologies.
In December 2012, SC Johnson completed work on two 415-foot-tall wind turbines at the company’s largest global manufacturing facility, Waxdale, in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin. The turbines have the capacity to generate on average 100 percent of electrical energy on-site to manufacture its brands such as Windex and Glade that are produced at Waxdale.
Three SWIFT mini wind turbines on the roof of its Lowell, Ark., sales office, which are capable of generating as much as 3,600 KWH of electricity annually, reducing carbon dioxide emissions equal to about 280 gallons of consumed gasoline.
A new biofuel initiative at its factory in Surabaya, Indonesia – by using waste husks from rice grains as a fuel source, is projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 7,800 tons each year.
SC Johnson expanded its concentrated cleaner refills to five of the company’s brands: fantastik, Pledge, Scrubbing Bubbles, Shout and Windex in an effort to save millions of pounds of plastic ending up in landfills nationwide.
SC Johnson continued to support communities around the world through philanthropy and volunteerism. In the last 10 years, SC Johnson contributions have exceeded $200 million