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Sustainable Business and Safer Chemistry Through the Supply Chain • How SC Johnson Uses Greenlist ™ • To Reduce Our Environmental Footprint Innovators Roundtable November 14-16, 2005 Darden School of Business
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Sustainable Business andSafer Chemistry Through the Supply
Chain•How SC Johnson Uses Greenlist™
•To Reduce Our Environmental Footprint
Innovators Roundtable November 14-16, 2005Darden School of Business
• Provides environmental leadership throughout the supply chain
• Establishes comparative criteria that measure environmental and biological impact
• Four Environmental Classification Levels (EC values) for our raw materials and packaging
Greenlist™ - Reducing ourenvironmental footprint
Greenlist™ is not a list of chemicals
• Original focus on 6 categories (80% of kg volume)
- Surfactants - Solvents - Propellants - Insecticides - Resins - Packaging
• 4 – 7 unique criteria for each category - Meaningful - Discriminating - Readily available - Other sig. concerns
• Each raw material or component gets a score - 3 (Best) - 2 (Better) - 1 (Acceptable) - 0 (Restricted Use Material - RUM)
Greenlist™ - Reducing ourenvironmental footprint
How the Greenlist™ Works
• Presence moves material down one class– PBT/POP (EPA Classifications)– Endocrine disruptors– Carcinogenicity (IARC, Proposition 65, EU
Category II)– Reproductive toxicity (Proposition 65)– Other “chemicals of concern” lists
• Banned in one or more countries where SC Johnson markets products.
• Unofficial bans (trade, associations)
Greenlist™ - Reducing ourenvironmental footprint
Other Significant Concerns
FY00/01 FY02/03 FY03/04 FY04/050.00
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1.12 on 232 Million Kgs
from 5-Rated Categories
1.26 on 227 Million Kgs
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1.24 on 270 Million Kgs
from 9-Rated
Categories
1.41 on 620 Million Kgs
from 17-Rated
Categories
Greenlist™ - Reducing ourenvironmental footprint
Partnering with Suppliers to “Green”The Supply Chain
There are numerous ways to partner on “Greening” the supply chain.
1. Identify raw material that need replacements
2. Sharing raw material criteria with supplier
3. Requesting “Environmentally Responsible” replacements for specific chemical.
4. Partnering on projects to develop superior products with a better environmental/health profile
Dow Chemical A Unique and Innovative Supplier• Wide range of Raw Materials
Plastics SolventsBiocides SurfactantsChelants Polymers
• Global SupplierRaw materials are available at all our manufacturing sites
• Extensive R&D and EH&S ResourcesDevelopment of new materials for customersToxicity and Environmental data and testing of materials
• Extensive Technical Service Resources Partnership on numerous projects
High through-put capabilities to screen and identify alternatives
Total Solutions to meet cost/performance criteriaProduct Alternatives to address EH&S concerns
Challenges of Commercializing New “Environmentally” Responsible Raw Materials
• First the performance and cost parameters need to be defined!
• Can a supplier find or design a replacement that is equivalent or better in performance at a similar cost structure.
• If a substitute is Identified Does it have equal performance?
Is it a commercial product?If not commercial, what is the cost to
commercialize?
• The Greenlist Process reduces the environmental impact of raw materials we use in our products.
• SCJ as a chooser of chemicals must rely on our suppliers to partner with us to identify raw materials that have better environmental profiles.
• The Greenlist Process has produced products that are better for the environment, good for our consumers, and good for business. The Greenlist process is helping SC Johnson build a sustainable future.
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