SUSTAINABILITY
Arm & Hammer is committed to conducting our operations in a sustainable and environmentally responsible manner while striving to achieve our business goals. We continually assess the impacts of our operations on the environment and promote environmental awareness with our employees.
In January 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency named Church & Dwight to the National Top 100 list, which recognizes the largest green power users within the Green Power Partnership. Church & Dwight offset 100% of its electricity use for domestic based operations earning a rank of #69 out of 1,700 companies on the Green Power Partner List. Click here to read the current sustainability report.
Our Commitment
1. Achieve carbon neutral status for all global operations by end of 2025.
2. Reduce global process water and/or wastewater by 10% annually normalised to production.
3. Maintain a global operations solid waste recycling rate of 75%.
Managing for Environmental Sustainability and Safety
It is essential for us to make great products and to produce them in facilities with robust environmental, health and safety performance. We work toward this high-performance culture by adhering to well established principles defined in the company environmental and safety policies. These policies guide our environmental and safety practices and expectations, and they are implemented through the following approach:
Accountability
Each of our facilities has a designated on-site environmental and safety coordinator responsible for monitoring and managing environmental and safety issues affecting their facility. These coordinators are closely networked to enable peer mentorship and best practice sharing across facilities.
Audits and Inspections
Each of our facilities undergoes a third-party conducted safety audit each year, and a third-party conducted environmental audit every other year. All facilities are subject to periodic, unannounced inspections by federal, state and local environmental and safety agencies.
Awareness
We offer regular training for all our manufacturing employees to promote awareness of environmental and safety practices and procedures. This includes an annual Environmental and Safety Conference for facility environmental and safety coordinators.
Awards
Each year we recognised one of our global operations for exemplary environmental safety and sustainability performance. An award is presented to a representative of the operation at a Town Hall event.
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