SC Johnson Announces Global Partnership with Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Company Signs On as the 10th Global Partner to Help Advance a Circular Economy 

RACINE, Wisconsin, Jan. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, SC Johnson and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation announce a global partnership reflective of their mutual passion and dedication to accelerating the transition to a circular economy.  SC Johnson joins the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's nine existing Global Partners including Intesa Sanpaolo, Danone, Google, H&M, Nike, Phillips, Renault, Solvay and Unilever in driving forward market leading circular economy initiatives at scale.

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SC Johnson and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation share a vision for influencing system-wide change and will work with others to encourage new circular business innovation. The multi-year partnership builds on SC Johnson's decade long journey to improve the sustainability of its products. As part of this effort, the company 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," said 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," said Dame 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."

A Shared Commitment to a New Plastics Economy

With the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimating that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean, it is imperative that all actors come together and change the way people live with and use plastic.