From the Chairman and CEO’s office to the manufacturing line, the people of SC Johnson at all levels have an impact on the sustainability of our business, our communities, our products and our planet.

More than 130 SC Johnson employees are focused on environment, safety and health around the world – but all 12,000 employees contribute to fulfilling SC Johnson’s commitment to sustainable development principles.

Throughout this site, you’ll hear from many of these individuals, sharing their own personal commitment and actions. As an example, in the sidebar at the right, an employee from Argentina talks about a local volunteerism effort and the impact it had. Others share their stories related to environmental initiatives, educating about insect-borne diseases and more.

Our Sustainability Strategies:

Environmental – in 2005, SC Johnson completed its most recent environmental strategy, surpassing all the goals set for our five largest factories. Two additional top factories joined the drive and also met these goals. The objectives included:
 

• Phase out 100 percent of chlorine-based external packaging such as bleached paperboard containers or bottles made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Accomplished in 2002.
   
• Increase annually the use of Greenlist™ materials, meaning those raw materials that are environmentally preferred according to our category-specific criteria. Accomplished annually 2002-2005.
   
• Develop or apply sustainable development principles to business development programs for one or more business categories. We continue to accomplish this goal.
   
• Achieve a 15 percent improvement versus 2000 in combined air emissions, water effluents and solid waste as a ratio to production. Accomplished in 2003.
   
• Achieve a 10 percent decrease versus our year 2000 baseline in the use of fossil fuel energies – such as oil, coal or natural gas – in our top five factories. Accomplished in 2003 in seven of our top factories.
   
• Establish a year 2000 baseline of greenhouse gas emissions for our top five factories, and use innovative approaches to reduce emissions by 5 percent annually. Accomplished four out of five years in our top seven factories.
   

Economic – our goal is to be the best at meeting emerging consumer needs to make consumers’ lives easier, cleaner and healthier. In addition, we contribute to the economies of our host communities around the world by providing local employment and partnering with local organizations to create growth and opportunity.

Among the economic objectives articulated in This We Believe is a commitment to ensuring new investment fits constructively into the economic development work process of each host country and local community, and to involving ourselves in social, cultural and educational projects that enhance the quality of life in our communities.

Social – our global Community Leadership Guidelines require that, at a minimum, each of our subsidiary companies around the world fulfill these objectives:
 

• Demonstrate senior management leadership in the community, through the General Manager holding at least one board-level membership with a major local community non-profit organization. We continue to accomplish this goal at a majority of our subsidiary companies around the world.
   
• Increase local charitable giving to a target of 2 percent of pre-tax profits. On a worldwide basis, the company contributes 5 percent of pre-tax profits, and giving has grown by almost 50 percent since 1995.
   
• Promote and coordinate at least one significant employee volunteer effort in the community each year.