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GOJO Purpose, Saving Lives and Making Lives Better Through Well-Being Solutions.
GOJO Sustainable Value Strategy Includes Climate Resilience and Responsibility
4/11/2023
By Dylan Beach
Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
This year's Earth Day theme is "Invest in Our Planet." This theme is "focused on engaging governments, institutions, businesses, and the more than 1 billion citizens who participate annually in Earth Day to do their part – everyone accounted for, everyone accountable," according to the global organizers. This blog post will explore a brief history of how we arrived at this moment of a warming planet, how GOJO as an organization focuses on sustainability, and actions you can take on a personal level to do your part and invest in our planet.
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GOJO Launches New Sustainable Value Goals
3/14/2023
By Dylan Beach
Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
For more than 75 years, GOJO has been shaping a better future for everyone through well-being solutions that save lives and make life better. When Goldie and Jerry Lippman founded GOJO in 1946, they built the company on the premise of creating a safer way for workers to clean their hands – this premise was about Clean Chemistry. They didn't call it Clean Chemistry then, but it was about creating a safe and efficacious solution. So much of what Goldie and Jerry did was inherently sustainable, although they likely didn't view it as we view sustainability today – from using old car window cranks for the first-ever portion-controlled dispenser to using recycled pickle jars for the product.
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GOJO Exceeds its Chemical Footprint Reduction Goal
1/18/2022
By Antonio Quiñones-Rivera, Ph.D.
Product Safety and Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
On December 8, 2015, at the 10th Annual BizNGO Chemical Footprint Conference in Boston, Mass., we announced our 2020 Sustainable Value Strategies and Goals, which included a bold commitment to reduce our chemical footprint by 50% by the end of 2020. In doing so, we became the first company to publicly announce a specific chemical footprint reduction target. Our sustainable chemistry strategy goes far beyond the required regulatory compliance in countries where our products are sold. This goal is another example of our commitment to lead by going above and beyond to offer products that are worry-free for our customers and better for the environment.
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Product Certifications Help Drive Sustainable Innovation at GOJO
9/21/2021
By Dylan Beach
Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
GOJO was founded 75 years ago on a safer way to clean hands, with the development of the first-ever one-step, rinse-off GOJO® Hand Cleaner as an alternative to the harsh solvents of the day that rubber factory workers used to remove tar and carbon black from their hands. We carry the same safe and effective design ethos forward with us today. Our formulations are based on decades of scientific innovation, using high-quality ingredients rigorously tested for safety and efficacy, like USP grade ethanol.
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Embedding Sustainability Drives Climate Impact
4/16/2021
By Dylan Beach
Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
This year, as we celebrate the 51st Earth Day, the world is uniting over three days, April 20-22, to focus on actions we all can take to further prevent climate change and environmental destruction. Science tells us that we need to reduce the world's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50% by 2030 to avert the most significant effects of climate change.
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Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Shows Our Commitment to Products That are Safe, Effective, and Good for You
11/16/2020
By Dylan Beach
Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
This year, the basic principle of good hand hygiene that we learned as children has become ingrained in all of us in ways it never was before. With global demand for hand hygiene products higher than ever before, these products must be not only safe, effective, and good for you, but also good for the environment. This is core to our GOJO Purpose of Saving Lives and Making Lives Better Through Well-Being Solutions.
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Relentless Innovation Leads to Water Savings
5/27/2020
By Dylan Beach
Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
Over the past several months, there has been more attention than ever placed on the role of handwashing in our everyday lives. Americans are washing their hands more frequently and for longer. Given the elevated handwashing taking place during this pandemic, we would like to highlight recent GOJO innovations that help reduce water usage while handwashing.
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Honoring the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day
4/22/2020
By Dylan Beach
Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
Every year, Earth Day serves as a reminder to support environmental protection and appreciate the world around us. The first Earth Day was in April of 1970, a time when environmental activism and civil rights led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (1970) and the Clean Water Act (1972). As we approach the 50th anniversary of celebrating the nation’s first Earth Day, we are again battling two existential crises – one we’re familiar with, climate change, and a new one we are still grappling to understand, a global pandemic.
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Wooster Solar Project: Reflections One Year Later
2/20/2020
By Tom Marting
Former Facilities, Environmental, Health, Safety, and Sustainability Director, GOJO Industries
It’s been a year since we flipped the switch and started generating solar power for the fulfillment operations at GOJO Wooster Campus. By the end of 2019, we generated more than 725 megawatt-hours and surpassed our 2020 renewable energy goal a year early.
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Reformulation of GOJO® MULTI GREEN® ECO Hand Cleaner: Sustainability in Action
8/6/2019
By Dylan Beach
Sustainability Senior Manager, GOJO Industries
Challenging ourselves to set the bar for our industry is part of what we do at GOJO. The GOJO Purpose, Saving Lives and Making Lives Better Through Well-Being Solutions, inspires us to continuously innovate and find new ways to enhance the lives of those we touch. We are proud to innovate in ways that have a positive impact, from a social, environmental, and economic sustainability point of view.
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