Sustainable Business and Safer Chemistry Through the Supply Chain

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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,
2005 Darden School of Business
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Greenlist - Reducing our environmental footprint
Greenlist is not a list of chemicals

• 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

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Greenlist - Reducing our environmental footprint
How the Greenlist Works

• 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)

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Greenlist - Reducing our environmental footprint
Other Significant Concerns

• 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)

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Greenlist - Reducing our environmental footprint
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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
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Dow Chemical A Unique and Innovative Supplier

• Wide range of Raw Materials
• Plastics Solvents
• Biocides Surfactants
• Chelants Polymers
• Global Supplier
• Raw materials are available at all our
  manufacturing sites
• Extensive RD and EHS Resources
• Development of new materials for customers
• Toxicity 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
  criteria
• Product Alternatives to address EHS concerns

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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?

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SUMMARY

• 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.