ARM & HAMMER® ESSENTIALS™ Cleaners

The ARM & HAMMER® ESSENTIALS™ Cleaners refillable system, consisting of one starter kit plus the minimum recommended six refills, offers significant packaging reduction benefits versus standard 32-oz. trigger spray products.

If 200 million consumers were to switch to the ARM & HAMMER® ESSENTIALS™ Cleaners system, it would be the equivalent of 1.4 billion 32-oz. bottles and would result in the reduction of packaging waste listed below.

Packaging Waste Reduction
The total amount of packaging saved with the ARM & HAMMER® ESSENTIALS™ Cleaners system versus standard 32-oz. trigger spray products (shelf units plus corrugate) is over 250 million pounds or 127,000 tons.

• Packaging weight of one (1) ARM & HAMMER starter bottle + six (6) refills
  = 0.73 pounds
• Packaging weight of seven (7) traditional cleaner bottles
  = 2.00 pounds
• Packaging weight savings for ARM & HAMMER system
  = (2.00 – 0.73)
  = 1.27 pounds
• Packaging weight savings for 200 million consumers
  = (1.27 * 200,000,000)
  = 255 million pounds

Green Works™ Natural Dishwashing Liquid

Green Works Dishwashing Liquid contains 1% petroleum ingredients. 
A typical Dishwashing Liquid might contain about 39% which could be petroleum derived. The benchmark forumula breaks down as follows:

• 4.9% amine oxide
• 31.1% alkyl ethoxylated sulfate
• 3.5% ethanol        

Walmart shoppers = 200,000,000
Ounces per Green Works unit = 22
% petroleum in Green Works formula = 1%
% petroleum in benchmark’s formula = 39%
Additional petroleum in benchmark formula = 38%
Gallons per ounce conversion = 0.0078125
Green Works unit consumer per year = 1
Petroleum saved per year = 13,062,500

If 200 million Walmart shoppers bought a bottle of Green Works Natural dishwashing liquid instead of a conventional dishwashing liquid, we would eliminate 13 million gallons of petroleum from being produced.

39% petroleum (benchmark) - 1% petroleum (Green Works) = 38% petroleum saved
(# Walmart Customers * 22 ounce bottle) (% of Petroleum Saved) (Gallons/Ounce)

(200,000,000 Walmart Customers * 22 ounce bottle)
= 4,400,000,000 ounces

(4,400,000,000 ounces * 0.38 Petroleum saved)
= 1,672,000,000

(1,672,000,000 * 0.0078125)
= 13,062,500 gallons of petroleum saved.