Product Care Product Care sponsored a product stewardship roundtable at the InnoVention breakfast, titled Thought Leaders on Sustainability. Chairman Paul Siracusa moderated the session with presentations by Catharine de Lacy, Clorox; Daniel Daggett, Sealed Air; and Jennifer Duran, Reckitt Benckiser (RB). The speakers explained that “going Green” must somehow be linked with “making Green.” For Clorox, that means integrated reporting of financials and sustainability, according to Catharine de Lacy, VPGlobal Stewardship, The Clorox Co. It’s all part of the company’s strategy to measure performance, people, products, planet and purpose. The company has linked its results in this manner since 2000 and it enables Clorox to look at product development in a sustainable way, de Lacy explained. As a result, Clorox has reformulated its flagship bleach into a concentrated form, reduced the amount of resin in Glad trash bags and reformulated Kingsford charcoal with natural ingredients. “We were one of the first companies to disclose the ingredients in our cleaning products,” concluded de Lacy. RB has a similar sustainability success story, noted Global Head of Sustainable Innovations Jennifer Duran. The company has committed to obtaining a third of revenue from more sustainable products by 2020 as part of its “BetteRBusiness” strategy, which is focused on the need for better health and hygiene behavior along with the growing scarcity of water. Other 2020 goals include reducing RB’s carbon footprint and water impact by one third and reaching more than 200 million people to improve their health and hygiene behavior. The company has developed a Sustainable Innovation Calculator, based on lifecycle assessment, to guide the development of low-impact products, explained Duran, who noted that the program led to the launch of Lysol Touch of Foam, which uses 60% less water than the standard product. Thought Leaders on Sustainability panel (left to right): Jennifer Duran, RB; Catharine de Lacy, Clorox; Daniel Daggett, Sealed Air; and moderator Paul Siracusa, Church & Dwight. Fowler Montgomery The CSPA selected Nina Butkovich from Blue Springs, MO, as the 26th recipient of the Murray Glauberman Memorial Scholarship Award. As a graduating senior from Blue Springs High School, she ranked first out of a class of 506. She is a National Merit Commended and National Hispanic Scholar who will attend The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena to study chemistry. Last summer, she conducted pioneering polymer research in the Dept. of Chemistry at the University of Iowa; according to the supervising professor, her method is so vastly superior to prior methods that it will become the standard in the field. Butkovich’s mother is an employee at CSPA member company Faultless Starch/Bon Ami. Left to right: Jeannene Ackerman, Murray Glauberman Scholarship Selection Committee Representative; Nina Butkovich; and CSPA Chairman Paul Siracusa. 86 SPRAY July 2014
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