SC Johnson partners with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation

SC Johnson, Racine, Wisconsin, says it has joined the U.K.-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s nine global partners—Intesa Sanpaolo, Danone, Google, H&M, Nike, Phillips, Renault, Solvay and Unilever—to advance market-leading circular economy initiatives.

SC Johnson says is shares a vision for influencing systemwide change with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and will work with others to encourage new circular business innovation.

The multiyear partnership builds on SC Johnson’s decade-long journey to improve the sustainability of its products, the company says. As part of this effort, SC Johnson says it has spent years working with industry experts to understand barriers to circularity and to find solutions to overcome them.

“Plastic pollution is an enormous problem, and it is going to take businesses, governments, consumers and civil society working together to solve it," says Fisk Johnson, chairman and CEO of SC Johnson. "We're all going to have to come together, and Ellen and the foundation have done an excellent job creating an opportunity for partnership and progress.”

"Built upon their strong history as a family company and pioneering work on transparency and product circularity, SC Johnson is taking a leadership role to help redesign global systems according to circular economy principles and to address major challenges such as plastic pollution,” says Ellen MacArthur, founder and chair of trustees of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. “We are delighted to welcome SC Johnson as a global partner and look forward to the progress we can drive together towards an economy that works in the long term.”

In October 2018, Johnson joined leaders from around the world to sign the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment at the 2018 Our Ocean Conference in Bali, Indonesia. SC Johnson joined a global coalition of businesses and governments to tackle the plastic pollution crisis. This commitment, led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with UN Environment, is addressing the root causes of plastic pollution and will help keep plastic out of our oceans.

With the increasing attention on the global plastic waste crisis, SC Johnson also published its commitments and progress to further reduce its own plastic footprint, as the company says it has been designing unnecessary plastic packaging out of its products for years. SC Johnson also announced plans to boost recycled plastic content in its packaging, support plastic bottle reuse through concentrated refills and launched an effort to make Ziploc® bags recyclable at curbside.

More information on SC Johnson’s commitment to addressing plastic pollution and to supporting a more circular plastic economy is at www.scjohnson.com/plastic.