Edgewell Personal Care released its sustainability report, "Never. Stop. Caring."

The report details the progress the company has made over the last year in priority areas such as sustainable products and packaging. The team at Edgewell is also innovating with alternative materials; showing ingredient stewardship and transparency; and practicing ethical and responsible sourcing.

View Edgewell's full report, Never. Stop. Caring, where the company outlines how it is leading through innovative environmental and social initiatives. This includes committing to 100% renewable electricity, regionalizing production and warehousing, embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion across its business and brands.

Rod Little, President and CEO of Edgewell, shown above, left, comments:

"It was only a year ago that we increased our commitment to sustainability with ambitious targets through our Sustainable Care 2030 strategy. Since that time, we've made significant progress on driving sustainable value throughout the organization thanks to the passion of our teams and their determination to achieve the ambitious goals we've outlined in our strategy. As a personal care company, we are deeply committed to well-being, so we will continue to innovate and lead the way in our categories to care for our consumers, retailers, employees and the planet we all share."

Edgewell's Progress Toward Being More Sustainable

Demonstrating progress against the priorities outlined in its Sustainable Care 2030 strategy, in FY20 Edgewell has:

• Increased employee experience scores year-over-year and kept its employees safe during Covid-19.


• Redesigned packaging to use less materials, reduce virgin petroleum-based plastic and helped educate consumers on how to recycle.


• Continued to innovate shaving products including using sustainable materials such as recycled glass and plastics in its razor handles.


• Reformulated some of its sun care products to include natural-based mineral formulations.


• Launched a refreshed diversity, equity and inclusion strategy.


• Maintained a world-class injury rate and continued to foster an engaging and inclusive safety culture at each of its manufacturing facilities.


• Maintained its goal to ensure all 3TG minerals in its razors and trimmers are 100% DRC conflict-free.


• Edgewell recently announced that its disposable razors, including Schick Xtreme and Skintimate, have handles made with up to 100% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic. The company also launched a U.S. razor recycling program, helping consumers reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills.

Future Goals

Edgewell is on track to:

• Support the shift to a low carbon economy and use 100% renewable electricity by 2030.


• No longer produce products that contain microplastic and parabens by 2024.


• Ensure 100% of its plastic packaging is recyclable, compostable or reusable in our razors and blades segment by 2025, and all other segments by 2030.


• Use recycled and certified responsibly sourced fiber for 100% of fiber packaging for razors and blades by 2025, and all other segments by 2030.


• Reduce the virgin petroleum-based plastic content in disposable razor handles by 50% and in feminine care products by 25% by 2030.


• Reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 10% by 2030 (based on FY19 baseline)

Edgewell's Sustainable Care 2030 is its ambitious strategy, first unveiled in 2020. It includes key commitments and targets across its brands, operations and supply chain, and workforce and communities.