John Steinbeck opined that, “it is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” If we are to achieve the great changes that are necessary to protect our planet home, we must set bold challenges for ourselves. We did this in 2009 when we established a set of forward-looking sustainability goals to drive our innovation work and guide our broader sustainability initiatives. These goals translate our vision into achievable tasks and help motivate our work. We streamlined these goals slightly in 2010 and report our progress here. We cover additional performance indicators throughout the report.
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Palm Oil |
All palm oil use meets highest definition of sustainable by 2015 |
In 2009 and 2010 purchased sustainable “offsets” for all of our palm oil use |
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Plastics |
80% reduction in virgin petrochemical plastic use by 2014 (2007 baseline) |
We need to make deep changes to meet this goal despite dramatically increasing the recycled content of our plastic bottles. |
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Products Learn more. |
identify toxins in supply chain for cleaners by 2014 and develop a plan to eliminate them |
Researched sodium lauryl sulfate; see “From Seed to Shelf” |
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Products will be biodegradable and natural:
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Integrated this goal into product development work. Are developing verifiable definition of “natural.” Increased our use of renewable surfactants in our cleaners by 68%. |
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Water |
100% of supply chain water use is sustainable by 2020 |
Gathering data from Tier 1 suppliers |
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Energy |
Offset Headquarters electricity use by 2012 |
Entering into partnership with local school to provide solar panels |
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Reduce product lifecycle GHG* emissions 15% by 2016 (from 2007 baseline) |
A series of life cycle assessments are directing our product improvements |
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Reduce GHG emissions 80% by 2050 from 2005 baseline (normalized to sales) |
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Reduce employee personal carbon footprints by 20% from 2006-2010 |
Goal met; learn more 20% reduction in 2010 13% reduction in 2009 |
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Community Learn more. |
1000 hours community service by 2011 |
81 employees (75%) contributed 1220 hours of community volunteer time |
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*GHG: greenhouse gas emissions |
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15% since 2009
12% since 2009