联合国可持续发展目标

3: 确保所有年龄段的人都有健康的生活并提升他们的幸福感

Avient 致力于为员工提供安全健康的工作场所。We also provide our customers with innovative healthcare technologies that prevent and reduce the spread of germs and illness. From labware for diagnostic testing to protective equipment and sterile packaging to ventilators and medical devices, plastics are a crucial tool in saving lives and improving health and safety in our communities. As the focus on sustainability continues to grow in the healthcare industry, Avient has continued to evolve our portfolio to meet our customers’ needs. Our portfolio is designed to help our customers overcome healthcare challenges with durable, lightweight, eco-conscious and lower carbon footprint materials. As a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, Avient will continue collaborating to develop and implement solutions to promote infrastructure, education, innovation, and clean-up efforts. 

7: 确保人人都能获得负担得起、可靠、可持续的现代能源

Reducing consumption from non-renewable energy sources is a key part of Avient’s path to carbon neutrality by 2050. We set an interim 2030 goal to attain 60% of our electricity from renewable sources. In 2023, we met this goal reaching 62% electricity being from renewable sources by leveraging virtual power purchase agreements among other sourcing initiatives. 

9: 建设有弹性的基础设施，促进包容和可持续的工业化并推动创新

Avient’s portfolio of RENEW solutions are designed to advance the circular economy. These solutions help enable customers to achieve their sustainability goals by increasing the use of post customer recycled (PCR) and post industrial recycled (PIR) content, enabling recyclability, increasing adoption of biopolymers and minimizing plastic waste. Avient’s portfolio of REDUCE solutions include design and materials solutions that enable customers to reduce weight, energy consumption and emissions. Avient’s portfolio of PRESERVE sustainable solutions are designed to preserve natural resources like water, protect human health and safety, and enable sustainable infrastructure.

12: 确保可持续的消费和生产模式

在 Avient，我们专注于持续改进流程和优化资源利用。我们承诺遵守 ACC 责任关怀倡议及其指导原则。Our annual goal of reducing waste to landfill intensity by 3%, as well as annual incentives, are designed to encourage facilities to eliminate waste generation and identify beneficial uses for their remaining waste streams. In 2023, we were able to further optimize operations through executing over 80 waste minimization projects around the world. Additionally, 47 of our manufacturing sites globally sent no waste to landfills in 2023. We are dedicated to ensuring 100% of our products manufactured for packaging applications will be recyclable or reusable, reaching 91% in 2023. 

13: 采取紧急行动应对气候变化及其影响

在 Avient，我们认识到气候变化的负面影响，因此我们正在努力减少公司对环境的影响。We have set a goal to reduce Scope 1 & 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 55% and achieve operational carbon neutrality by 2050. In 2023, we reduced GHG emissions by 48%. While we remain focused on achieving our 2030 GHG and energy goals, we believe further actions and strong leadership are critical to addressing climate change and ensuring a stable and sustainable planet. That is why, in support of the objectives of the Paris Agreement, we announced our ambition to achieve operational carbon neutrality by 2050 and aligned goals with our RE100 commitment. We know the path to achieving carbon neutrality will not be easy. We have been working with internal and external stakeholders to understand how we can achieve our goal to become carbon neutral in line with climate science.