Protecting the Environment

Avient is fully committed to protecting the environment by addressing climate change, conserving natural resources and preventing pollution. Through our environmental aspect and impact assessments within our RC14001 EH&S Management System, we have focused on the following key topics: energy, emissions and climate change, as well as effluents and waste from our operations.

The EH&S Committee of the Board of Directors provided oversight of the systems in place to monitor and mitigate risk associated with these key topics in 2024*. Avient’s Corporate EH&S Department defines the strategy and monitors performance against related management system standards. Full operational responsibility for execution lies within each business unit and operating site. To ensure performance expectations are met, each site has trained management personnel to oversee their systems. To drive engagement at all levels of the organization, financial incentives for all salaried personnel are partially tied to energy intensity and waste intensity targets. To ensure the ongoing prioritization of capital projects that drive energy, waste, and water efficiency, Avient has implemented a system to identify and centrally fund projects with the greatest impact on our sustainability goals.

*For more information on changes to the EH&S Committee in 2025, refer to the Governance section of the Sustainability Report.

Renewable Energy Update

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.