DuPont Personal Protection—Innovating for sustainability
Our 2030 Sustainability Goals
Create sustainable innovations to help society thrive and address its most pressing challenges
- • Delivering solutions for global challenges
- • Enabling a circular economy
- • Innovating safe and sustainable by design
Operate sustainably by delivering world-class, end-to-end performance in safety, resource efficiency, and environmental protection
- • Acting on climate
- • Leading water stewardship
- • Delivering world-class environmental, health and safety performance
Enable the health and well-being of people and communities and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion
- • Accelerating diversity, equity and inclusion
- • Cultivating well-being and fulfillment
- • Building thriving communities
Initiatives Across the Value Chain
Recognizing DuPont's Commitment to Addressing Climate Change
DuPont Strengthens Science-Based Climate Goals and Receives Target Validation from SBTi for its 2030 goals
DuPont Achieves CDP Leadership Criteria in Climate Change performance
EcoVadis Sustainability Rating
Sustainability Efforts in Tyvek® Protective Apparel
At DuPont, we are committed to protecting our environment. While always aiming for continuous improvement for more sustainable solutions, we offer you this Eco Pack option as an alternative to our standard packaging for Tyvek® 500 Xpert coveralls.
With this initiative and in line with our Sustainability Goals, DuPont Personal Protection contributes to the reduction of indirect GHG (Green House Gases) emissions. By purchasing these coveralls manufactured by DuPont, you will also indirectly reduce usage of virgin grade LDPE (Low Density Polyethylene) in packaging and help protecting the environment.
Implemented the use of QR codes on markings alongside printed IFUs for all CE certified industrial garments range, investing significantly in the digital infrastructure to enable this change.
Plan to eliminate the IFUs in paper form once the European PPE Regulation requirements are clarified through either guidance or regulation.
DuPont™ Tyvek® is proud to expand our long standing Tyvek® Protective apparel recycling program to help our customers in Europe manage used Tyvek® and IsoClean® protective apparel and reduce wastage.
DuPont Publishes 2024 Sustainability Report
- Report details progress on sustainability strategy organized under three pillars: Innovate, Protect and Empower.
- Advanced strategic actions across all nine 2030 Sustainability Goals achieving significant results in three priority goals: Delivering solutions for global challenges, Acting on climate, and Accelerating diversity, equity and inclusion.
How we are advancing sustainability
Commitment in action
<span class="fontsize12">The HSE Manager’s Guide to sustainability considerations for PPE </span>
Learn more about key steps to optimising safety and sustainability in the workplace.
<span class="fontsize12">The HSE Manager’s Guide to sustainability considerations for PPE </span>
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<span class="fontsize14">Tyvek® Runs on renewable energy </span>
Tyvek® is produced using renewable electricity in its operations. This milestone was achieved by purchasing renewable energy credits (RECs).
<span class="fontsize14">Tyvek® Runs on renewable energy </span>
<span class="fontsize14">Recycle Your Nomex® PPE With Zero Waste Box™ System </span>
As a leading manufacturer for PPE, DuPont is excited to let its customers know that they can reach out to TerraCycle® to facilitate improved sustainability across the industry through their Fabrics and Clothing Zero Waste Box™ program.
<span class="fontsize14">Recycle Your Nomex® PPE With Zero Waste Box™ System </span>
Protecting frontline workers during a global pandemic
When the spread of the COVID-19 virus escalated to the level of a global pandemic in March 2020, many healthcare facilities and essential service facilities were left without the protective gear they needed to battle this deadly virus.
We collaborated with our value chain partners to launch a new global program, #TyvekTogether, to increase the overall availability of Tyvek® personal protective garments. Thousands of our employees worked day and night to make Tyvek® materials and patterns available to more organizations, working together to protect the healthcare workers who were saving lives and slowing the spread of the virus.
The #TyvekTogether program introduced a new specialized Tyvek® fabric to enable the increased production of an additional 6 million gowns per month for frontline responders. By the end of 2020, we had produced more than 100 million Tyvek®, Tychem® and ProShield® PPE garments for the fight against COVID-19—and we’re not stopping yet.
