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Driving Safety & Sustainability

For more than a century, chemistry has enabled solutions to some of the world’s most daunting sustainability challenges.

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Driving Safety & Sustainability

The chemical industry is advancing safety and sustainability worldwide, through innovations, collaborations and technologies the enhance the health, safety and environmental impacts of our products and operations.

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ACC Sustainability Principles

ACC’s Sustainability Principles outline ACC members’ commitment to promote the safe use of chemicals, address environmental impacts of products and operations, go beyond regulatory requirements through Responsible Care, and collaborate with others to fulfill our sustainability commitments.

24%
Decrease in distribution incidents by Responsible Care companies from 2017-2021
4X
Better worker safety rate from Responsible Care companies than the U.S. manufacturing sector as a whole
20%
Reduction in recordable injury and illness rates since 2010

Future of STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI)

FOSSI provides scholarships to students pursuing STEM degrees at HBCUs and connects these students to internships, leadership development, and mentoring opportunities at participating companies.

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FOSSI by the Numbers

$30M
raised by over 70 corporate sponsors.
600+
scholarships funded through 2025.
425+
scholarships awarded in the first three FOSSI classes.