AURORA, Ill. – Freudenberg Home and Cleaning Solutions (FHCS), known in the Unites States for the O-Cedar brand and Playtex gloves, announces that it is a signatory of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment. With this commitment the leading global supplier of branded cleaning systems endorses the vision of a circular economy in which plastic produce never becomes waste. FHCS targets for 2025 include:

• Review 100 percent of all products globally and eliminate problematic or unnecessary packaging, for example by changing laminated plastic film to monomaterial
• Strive to achieve 100 percent of all packaging to be recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025.
• Explore options to further change from single to multi-use containers in warehouse and factory logistics and B2B transportation
• Achieve 50% recycled content across all packaging and 25%t recycled content in plastic packaging in 2025
• Increase the amount of recycled material of our solid plastic products from currently 46 percent to 50% by 2025

“We can be proud of our achievements to date”, says Karin Overbeck, CEO of FHCS. “About 90 percent of our products are durable and help save waste while delivering excellent product performance. In recent years we continuously increased use of recycled plastic in our solid plastic products to over 40%. Nearly all our plastic packaging is recyclable. But we have a responsibility to continuously improve and work towards a circular economy. For FHCS this signature is a milestone, as it reflects our longstanding conviction that business growth and sustainability go hand in hand.”