Sustainable & Green Businesses

Our focus on sustainability is not just for us, but for our customers and their customers

At Diversey, sustainability isn’t a buzzword. It’s a byword. It is at the heart of how we’re delivering a cleaner, healthier future for the world.

We’re not simply operating our own business more sustainably. We’re helping our customers protect their customers and their brands while they reduce their costs, improve their profitability, and enhance their public image. And we’re helping businesses see sustainability practices as a competitive advantage, not a burden.

There is no clearer case in point than our commitment to Climate Savers, the internationally acclaimed, rigorous greenhouse gas reduction program of the World Wildlife Fund. We’ve vowed to cut our carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent by 2013. Our commitment to a 25 percent reduction is more than triple what we agreed to just a year earlier when we signed the Climate Savers covenant — and we’ll recoup nearly 130 percent in operational savings compared to what we will invest to reach that commitment.

How is that possible? Simple. CO2 emissions are a powerful indicator of waste: they damage the earth’s environment, cost money to produce in the form of expended energy, and don’t add value to what we offer our customers.

Diversey is Proud to Support

Let the Clean Economy Begin

In partnership with the World Wildlife Fund, Diversey is part of "Let the Clean Economy Begin," an alliance with 21 other global companies to counter the myth that cutting carbon is bad for business.

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Operations

Creating a cleaner, healthier future for all the world begins at our own doorstep. At Diversey, we have made a public commitment to challenging, measurable reductions in our environmental impact. We know that the kind of innovative thinking that drives success is what will also drive continuous improvement in our operational profile, for profits, for people and for the environment. 

Customers

We help our customers examine and reduce the environmental and operational impact of their businesses. With our expertise in cleaning and hygiene and our superior products, we help customers save water and energy and reduce labor costs while making their facilities safer, cleaner and more hygienic. Our innovations in product packaging, dispensing and dosing reduce waste, protect workers and improve the efficiency of product transport. We’ve reformulated products to remove chemicals that harm aquatic life or damage the environment and to provide solutions that contribute to better indoor air quality than conventional products.

Partners

We collaborate with other industry and thought leaders around the globe to promote a sustainability mindset within our industry and to advocate for a cleaner, healthier future. Around the globe, we’ve established vital partnerships with government agencies, nongovernmental organizations and industry groups. We share our expertise and draw on the value that results when creative, passionate people unite their talents toward common goals.

Workforce

It is through our employees’ talent, creativity and passion that Diversey is creating a cleaner, healthier future. We invest in our employees’ safety, well-being, training and career development. And we engage them actively in continuously improving our operational effectiveness and reducing our environmental impact. They are our company’s greatest asset.

Communities

We believe every place in the world that we do business should be better because we are there. Our emphasis on volunteerism and our employees’ generosity with their time and talent are helping Diversey create a cleaner, healthier future for the people whom we are privileged to serve as our customers’ customers. We encourage volunteerism through our Global Children’s Initiative to help children who live in poverty and through a host of regional and local efforts organized and implemented by employees who want to improve lives in their communities.

Governance

At Diversey, we hold ourselves to the highest standard of ethical and legal behavior in everything we do — because we believe the right way is the only way to do business. We follow our detailed Code of Ethics and Business Conduct. The governing principle and theme of all our ethics training and compliance programs, "Ethics is Good Business," expresses our view of the fundamental role those high standards play in everything we do. We audit all our business practices regularly and rigorously, and engage a practice of continuous improvement.

2 MILLION GALLONS

of water saved by collecting storm water near our global headquarters every year.

25 PERCENT      

We've committed to cut our carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent by 2013.

100 PRODUCTS     

certified by independent, third party groups for meeting health, safety and environment criteria.