Sustainability
Cleaner. Safer. Healthier.
At Ecolab, making the world a cleaner, safer, healthier place is our business. Our solutions are designed to provide customers with the most effective and efficient cleaning, food safety and infection prevention while focusing on overall impact on the environment.
Sustainability is inherent in our products and services. From concentrated, solid formulations to innovative packaging and dispensing methods, our products are designed to help increase safety, lower the use of water and energy, and reduce the chemicals and waste released to the environment.
Sustainability is not a standalone initiative. It is integral to everything we do in our day to day business.
Economic Progress
Ecolab is a world´s leading provider of cleaning, food safety and health protection products and services. Our ongoing commitment to exceeding our customers cleaning and sanitation needs has helped Ecolab achieve sustainable, profitable growth in the past and continues to guide us into the future.
Economic Principles
- We provide innovative and effective solutions that help our customers prosper and grow.
- We invest in research and development to create the best solutions at the best value.
- We invest in our people, equipping them with the tools, technology and training they need to do their jobs while providing opportunities for personal growth and development.
Environmental Stewardship
Through continuous improvement and sustainable innovation, Ecolab creates solutions that maximize product and environmental performance. We make sound decisions based on good science, and are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and overall impact on the environment.
Environmental Principles
- We actively develop products and services that minimize our customers water and energy use, with innovative packaging and dispensing methods that reduce waste.
- We use environmentally responsible and sustanable energy sources, and invest in improving energy efficiency in our operations on an ongoing basis.
- We monitor the environmental, health and safety compliance standards of our manufacturing facilities and participate in third-party audits to continously improve our performance. We promptly respond to situations where our operations have had an adverse effect on people or the environment.
Social Responsibility
Ecolab is a respected leader that takes our responsibility to the communities we serve seriously. We promote the well-being of our associates, our customers and our customers ´customers by contributing to programs and initiatives that enhance quality of life in the communities in which we work and live.
Social Principles
- We support small,disadvantaged and women-owned businesses by actively seeking such suppliers in our competitive bidding processes, and are committed to fostreing relationships with diverse suppliers throughout the world.
- We provide our customers with products and services that help protect the health and safety of their customers and employess, and enhance safety by offering comprehensive product information, training and emergency support.
- We conduct business fairly and ethically. Our Code of Conduct defines our corporate culture- our associates worldwide are held to the highest level of integrity.