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Responsible Care & Sustainability: Global Value

Cal DooleyPresident & CEO, American Chemistry Council

Secretariat, International Council of Chemical Associations

• Initial focus on process and facility safety

• Adopt Responsible Care® Security Code

• Implement Responsible Care Management System®/RC14001®

• Undergo third-party audits of HQ and facilities

• Report environmental, energy, safety performance metrics

• Expanded focus on product safety

Evolution of Responsible Care®

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Enhancing Global

Sustainability

Initiatives:

Challenges &

Opportunities

Our Contributions to Sustainability

Plastics and Sustainability

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Trucost, Plastics and Sustainability: A Valuation of Environmental Benefits, Costs and Opportunities for Continuous Improvement, July 2016

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ACC Sustainability Principles

Chemistry for Sustainability

The American Chemistry Council and its

members believe chemistry plays an

integral role in solving our world’s

sustainability challenges. We are

therefore committed to advancing safe,

innovative, effective, and economically

viable chemical products and

technologies that are key to unlocking

sustainability solutions.

Accelerating & Communicating

Societal Benefits

Lightening our Footprint &

Increasing Circularity

Creating Science-based

Frameworks & Enhancing

Transparency

Enabling Sustainability

through Chemistry

Empowering Individuals

and Communities

Protecting People and the Environment

Human Rights

Air Quality

GHG Impact

Innovations

to Support

Sustainability

Product Safety

Water Quality

Energy Efficiency

& Diversification

Resource Efficiency/

Circularity

Sustainable

Sourcing

Community Engagement

& Empowerment

Diversity &

Inclusion

Responsible

Management of

Hazardous Waste

A new global alliance to help end plastic waste

AEPW Four-Part Strategy

I N N O V A T I O N C L E A N U PE D U C A T I O N I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

Infrastructure

development to collect

and manage plastic

waste, and increase

recycling in areas of

greatest need.

Innovation to advance

and bring to scale new

technologies that make

recycling and

recovering plastics

easier and create value

from all post-use

plastics.

Education and

engagement of

governments,

businesses and

communities to mobilize

action.

Clean up to help stop

plastic waste at its

source, focusing on

cities and major rivers

that carry significant

amounts of plastic

waste to the ocean.

Supporting Renew Oceans Renew Ganga project

to aid localized investment and engagement,

designed to capture plastic waste before it

reaches the ocean.

Renew Ganga’s goal is to divert 100,000 pounds

of ocean-bound plastics in India in the first year,

and 1 million pounds in 2020.

Project Stop Objectives:

1) Zero leakage of waste into the environment.

2) Increased resource efficiency and recycling of

plastics.

3) Benefits for the local community by creating

new jobs and reducing impacts of mismanaged

waste on public health, tourism and fisheries.