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Cleaning Industry Launches Sustainable Products Initiative

January 30, 2014January 30, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The American Cleaning Institute (ACI), whose members include Dow Chemical, Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson and Seventh Generation among other major brands, has launched a voluntary initiative to improve the sustainability of cleaning products. The Charter for Sustainable Cleaning goes beyond basic legal requirements and provides a framework for driving the ... Read more »

SC Johnson Sustainability Report: GHGs Up 3%

November 8, 2013November 8, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

SC Johnson’s greenhouse gas emissions rose three percent between 2011 and 2012, a 1.8 percentage point change versus its 2000 baseline – but the company says the addition of two US wind turbines is set to put it back on track. In its 2013 sustainability report, SC Johnson admits it ... Read more »

SC Johnson Builds Sustainable Insecticide Supply, Boosts Farmers’ Incomes

August 20, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

SC Johnson has partnered with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture to help Rwanda pyrethrum farmers boost incomes while creating an environmentally and economically sustainable raw materials source. Pyrethrum, or py, is a fast-acting and highly effective insecticide extracted from the dried ... Read more »

Cleaning Product Industry Cuts GHGs 12% in One Year

August 7, 2013August 7, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Dow Chemical, Ecolab, SC Johnson, Seventh Generation and other American Cleaning Institute member companies reduced their greenhouse gas emissions 12 percent from 2010 to 2011, according to the ACI’s 2013 Sustainability Report. The cleaning product industry’s second sustainability report shows overall decreases by member companies in four environmental metric data ... Read more »

SC Johnson Makes Compostable Bags for Commercial Facilities

May 10, 2013May 15, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

SC Johnson has launched Ziplock Brand Compostable Bags designed for use in commercial composting facilities that accept food scraps and compostable bags. The compostable bags include sandwich bags, 15-quart sized food storage bags and 2.6-gallon food scrap bags. In 2010, Americans generated about 250 million tons of trash and about ... Read more »

Waste Management, Recyclebank Divert 179m Pounds to Recycling

March 21, 2013March 14, 2018 by Kirsten Korosec

More than 75 communities have recycled 179 million pounds of materials in one year and citizens have collected $4 million in rewards under a program launched last year by Waste Management and recycling incentive company Recyclebank. Waste Management, which invested in Recyclebank’s parent company Recycle Rewards in 2011, plans to ... Read more »

Cisco, IBM, Intel Win Climate Leadership Awards

March 1, 2013March 1, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Intel, Cisco Systems and IBM are among the 23 Climate Leadership Award winners selected by the EPA, the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO), the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and The Climate Registry (TCR). The second annual awards honor companies, organizations and individuals that reduce GHG emissions ... Read more »

SC Johnson Sustainability Report: Solid Waste Drops 2 Points

February 20, 2013February 20, 2013 by Leon Walker

From 2010 to 2011, SC Johnson reduced its waste output by 2 percentage points, as the company aimed to reduce its solid waste by 70 percent of 2000 levels by 2016. Since the baseline year, the maker of Glade, Pledge, Windex and Off! products has decreased its global manufacturing waste ... Read more »

SC Johnson Purchases Wind Power in Mexico

February 13, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

SC Johnson Mexico is participating in the Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) wind farm program via a power purchase agreement, which will enable the company to increase its use of renewable energy at its Toluca, Mexico facility to an estimated 86 percent, up by 65 percent. The turbines are in ... Read more »

Democrats Canvas Walmart, NFL, Apple on Climate Change Strategies

February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 by Leon Walker

Congressional Democrats’ Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change has written to Google, the NBA, the NFL, Walmart, Wells Fargo, the Clinton Global Initiative and more than 300 other organizations to canvas their opinions on combating global warming. The letter, which was also sent to companies including Whole Foods, Target, Ford, ... Read more »

Energy Industry Recognition: Hara; Synergy Rewards; SC Johnson

January 14, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

Independent analyst firm Verdantix has recognized Hara as an Energy Management Software Specialist in its report Green Quadrant Energy Management Software (Global) 2013. The Green Quadrant report compares 14 enterprise-class energy management software applications. The report found that Hara scored highest among its peers for energy reporting and analysis, with ... Read more »

On-Site Windpower Generates Electricity for Manufacturer

December 18, 2012 by Linda Hardesty

SC Johnson, a maker of household cleaning products, today activated two new wind turbines at its Waxdale manufacturing facility in Mt. Pleasant, Wis. The wind turbines will produce about 8 million kWh of electricity annually. Combined with two cogeneration turbines that have been in place since the mid-2000s, the facility ... Read more »

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