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Coming Clean: ACI Vaunts Environmental Progress in 2013 Sustainability Report
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August 07, 2013

Coming Clean: ACI Vaunts Environmental Progress in 2013 Sustainability Report

By Cheryl Kaften
TMCnet Contributor

The $30 billion U.S. cleaning products industry is ensuring that its reputation remains untarnished. In its just-released 2013 Sustainability Report, the American Cleaning Institute (ACI), a Washington, DC-based advocacy group, reveals that its members have cleaned up their act significantly in four benchmarked areas: energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption and solid waste generation.


Overall, the institute claims, during 2011, its members demonstrated a reduction in all four environmental metrics, compared to 2009. During this period, energy use decreased 9 percent, greenhouse gas emissions decreased 7 percent, water consumption decreased 5 percent and solid waste generation decreased 17 percent.

What’s more, the 24 participating members demonstrated continuous improvement in the energy use profile per-cleaning-product produced. From 2009 to 2010 energy usage decreased by 6 percent–—and from 2010 to 2011 this metric decreased by 4 percent. There was a 12 percent decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from 2010 to 2011. To ensure year-to-year comparability in all data categories, only companies that kept data spanning all three reporting years (2009, 2010 and 2011) were presented in the report.

"As an organization representing the cleaning product supply chain, we are proud of our industry’s progress in sustainability and transparency," said Ernie Rosenberg, ACI president and CEO. "We continue to build the pathway for all ACI member companies to showcase sustainability successes and challenges that are integral to doing business in today’s marketplace."

Building upon decades of successful partnerships with organizations that share ACI’s goal of contributing to better living, the institute collaborates for positive social change—year-round and worldwide— through the following programs:

  • Clean the World collects and recycles discarded soaps, shampoos, conditioners and other hygiene products from more than 1,200 participating hotels and hospitality partners and distributes them to those in need;
  • Cleaning For A Reason provides free household cleaning for women undergoing treatment for cancer;
  • The ACI Cleaning Product Ingredient Inventory is a detailed online inventory of ingredients used in consumer cleaning products, which promotes the responsible management of ACI members’ products and the safety of the ingredients in them; and
  • iSTREEM is a Web-based computer model that forecasts chemical concentrations in U.S. waterways resulting from the use of those chemicals in consumer products that are disposed down the drain.

Among the ACI members that contributed to the 2012 report are AkzoNobel Surface Chemistry; Amway; Arylessence, Inc.; BASF Corporation; Church & Dwight Company, Inc., The Clorox Company; Colgate-Palmolive Company; Croda Inc.; The Dow Chemical Company; DuPont Industrial Biosciences; Ecolab, Inc.; Evonik Goldschmidt Corporation; FMC Corporation; Givaudan Fragrances Corporation; Henkel Consumer Goods, Inc.,; Huntsman Corporation; Novozymes; Proctor & Gamble Company; PQ Corporation; Sasol; SC Johnson; Seventh Generation; Shell Chemical LP and Stepan Company.




Edited by Rachel Ramsey


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