Company: CHD
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-019801
Chunk: 63

Company: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 63
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 while making a meaningful and positive impact.  We believe that Sustainability is critical to the health of the communities in which we operate, contributes to a better world and benefits our business both financially and operationally.  Each year we publish a Sustainability Report that discloses our business and corporate responsibility commitments and details our ESG performance metrics and targets and other components of our ESG efforts.  Our 2023 Sustainability Report is available on our web site at https://churchdwight.com/pdf/Sustainability/2023-Sustainability-Report.pdf, and our 2024 Sustainability Report will be available in April 2025 (the “2024 Sustainability Report” and together with the 2023 Sustainability Report, the “Sustainability Reports”).  References to our Sustainability Reports are for informational purposes only and neither the Sustainability Reports nor the other information on our website is incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K.  

The following six pillars are the core focus of our Environmental and Social efforts.  Each is supported through our Governance practices, which are intended to maintain a system of rules, processes and practices that determine how we operate and align the interests of our stakeholders in support of ethical business practices and financial success. 

•Our Brands: Delight consumers with our brands and contribute towards a more sustainable world

•Products: Provide safe and effective products for consumers and the environment

•Packaging: Utilize consumer friendly and environmentally responsible packaging

•Employees and Communities: Embrace the principles of good corporate citizenship and social responsibility within the communities we can impact

•Environment & Climate Change: Minimize environmental impact of our global operations, with a focus on increased renewable energy usage, reduced water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste to landfills

•Responsible Sourcing: Improve our suppliers’ environmental, labor, health & safety and ethical practices

Environmental.  Our operations are subject to federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules and regulations relating to environmental concerns, including air emissions, wastewater discharges, solid and hazardous waste management activities, and the safety of our employees.  We endeavor to take actions necessary to comply with such regulations.  These steps include periodic environmental and health and safety audits 

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of our facilities.  The audits, conducted by independent firms with expertise in environmental, health and safety compliance, include site visits at each location, as well as a review of documentary information, to determine compliance with such federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules and regulations.  We strive to minimize the impact of our expanding