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Encouraging Sustainable Workplaces
and Habits
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The ultimate success of our eco strategies requires that environmental sensitivity and best practices become an
intrinsic part of the culture at Clorox. Every Clorox employee is called upon to support our commitments and
goals in order for us to achieve them and to realize the potential of sustainable business opportunities.
This process begins through our daily habits and in our
workplace environments. In North America, for example,
over the past two years Clorox has reduced paper use
by 30 percent and converted all remaining paper to
100 percent recycled content. We have reduced business
travel by 20 percent and converted company cars to
hybrid vehicles.
We are also proud that our corporate headquarters
in Oakland, Calif., recently received platinum-level
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) certification for an existing building (EB).
Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council,
the platinum LEED designation is the highest-level
certification a commercial property can achieve. The
Clorox Company building is one of only 38 buildings in
the U.S. to achieve LEED-EB certification. We achieved
this certification by decreasing the environmental
footprint of our facility’s operations through dozens of
building improvements over the last couple of years.
Employee Volunteers Drive
“Green-Handed” Ideas
One of our most successful employee involvement
strategies to date has been to recruit those employees
most passionate about positive environmental change.
In 2008, we created the Clorox Eco Network, a global
team of employee volunteers to help our company and
fellow employees make sustainable decisions on behalf
of the environment. The network serves as both a
forum for new ideas and the driver of workplace eco
initiatives. Recently, the network launched an intranet
page to share green news and tips, orchestrated Earth
Day celebrations across major Clorox sites and placed
“Get caught green-handed — turn off the lights” stickers
on 2,500 light switches in locations across Clorox
facilities. The Eco Network has now focused its
attention on waste reduction, in particular recycling
and composting, at key Clorox sites like our Oakland
general offices, where the network hopes to divert
90 percent of our waste from the landfill.
Eco Volunteers Go Global
The Clorox Eco Network has no borders and
has expanded throughout our global operations.
For example, in Chile volunteers have combined
their ingenuity and enthusiasm to make a sweeping
difference — literally.
Employees came up with the idea of using simple
plastics such as PET, packaging stretch film and plastic
bags as raw material for the broom bases that Clorox
makes. The initiative has enjoyed widespread involvement
from employees and their families as employees
not only collect plastic waste at work but also bring in
plastic waste from home.
The results have been so successful that the initiative
is expanding plastic recycling beyond the walls of
Clorox to include partnerships with customers,
schools and nonprofit organizations.
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