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8 Ways SC Johnson is Supporting a More Sustainable World for Your Family

You may know SC Johnson as the company that makes some of your favorite household products including Windex®, Pledge®, Glade® and OFF!®. But did you know we're also a long-time leader in working for environmental sustainability? We've been continually improving our product chemistry since the 1970s. We’ve been using renewable energy sources to power our factories for more than 15 years. Our partnership with Plastic Bank has helped stop a billion plastic bottles from entering the world’s oceans.

3 Jun 2021 Learn more

Renewable Energy Powers SC Johnson With the Use of Wind, Solar, Food Waste, and Trash

Wind Energy Powers SC Johnson’s Largest Manufacturing Site (and Others, Too!)

Minimizing Waste: Truckload Utilization Project Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Use

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SC Johnson Waxdale factory is powered with a mix of wind power, landfill gas and natural gas.

Environmental Leadership Highlights

2020 EPA National Top 100 List of Green Power Users

                                The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized SC Johnson as a top user of green power. Ranking No. 88 on the EPA's 2020 National Top 100 List of the largest green power users from the Green Power Partnership. Together, partners have amounts to more than 61 billion kilowatt-hours, which is equivalent to the annual electricity use of nearly 5.6 million average American homes.
                            

19 Oct 2020 See the full list

Goal Achievement Award for Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management

                                From 2015 to 2020, we cut greenhouse gas emissions nearly 30%, doubling our goal of 15%. We were honored to have this progress recognized with a Goal Achievement Award for Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management at the 2020 Climate Leadership Awards, hosted by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and The Climate Registry.
                            

18 Jun 2020 Learn more

Sam Johnsons bold decision set new heights for environmental responsibility.

                                More than 45 years ago, SC Johnson shocked the chemical industry and set new heights for environmental responsibility, as it was the first company to protect the Earth’s ozone layer by banning chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) from all its aerosol products worldwide. More than a decade before the 1987 Montreal Protocol treaty designed to reduce the production and use of chemicals that contribute to the depletion of the ozone layer. 
                            

1 Jan 1975 Learn more

SC Johnson Milestones in Environmental Leadership

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Quick Facts

Our turbines at our Waxdale manufacturing plant generate, on average, 100% of its electrical energy onsite.

Combined, Waxdale's two cogeneration turbines lower Green House Gas (GHG) emissions by more than 47,250 metric tons each year.

In 2003, SC Johnson became the first consumer packaged good manufacturer to use methane from a local public landfill to generate electricity.

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