How Product Stewardship Can Enable Product Sustainability, Life Cycle Thinking and Risk Reduction for Business

Sustainability is an essential element of business from the products we make to the way we make them. As we develop or improve products that makes the world a better place, it is clearly important to do so in a responsible manner. All new and significantly modified existing products sold by Owens Corning undergo a comprehensive Product Stewardship review to ensure that they perform as claimed and are both safe and environmentally sound to make, use and dispose. Product reviews address all elements of Owens Corning’s Environmental, Health, Safety and Product Stewardship Policy, and are carried out by highly qualified Product Stewardship Review Board members. Reviews are conducted at various stages, including the design, development, test market, manufacture and distribution phases. A Sustainability Mapping Tool is used to evaluate how the new product or process will impact the Company’s sustainability goals and to drive decisions in the design phase that will achieve a portfolio of more sustainable products. In this session we will give an overview of how Product Stewardship enables product sustainability, life cycle thinking and risk reduction for business.