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SC Johnson (SCJ) announced it has donated 125,000 units of personal
insect repellent and insecticides to benefit families in Argentina, Brazil and
Paraguay. The donations come as the countries have seen an increase in
the number of Dengue Fever cases in recent months.
In Argentina and Paraguay, SCJ donated more than 100,000 units of
mosquito repellent and insecticide to at-risk families. The company is also
continuing its Chau Mosquito campaign, which includes mosquito prevention
education and repellent use training. Since the program’s inception
in 2016, SCJ has provided a total of 58 training sessions and reached
900,000 families in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay with educational
resources and more than one million donated SCJ products.
In Brazil, the company donated approximately 25,000 units and is
continuing its partnership with the local non-government organizations to
educate families living in extreme poverty in the city of Rio de Janeiro on
how to best protect themselves from mosquito bites and the diseases that
may be transmitted.
A poll of 2,000 UK parents, conducted
by the Metal Packaging Manufacturers
Association (MPMA), found that 41% of
parents believe it is really their children who
drive recycling and sustainability attitudes at
home. MPMA found that 43% of parents
have faced a telling-off from their offspring
for not making more effort with recycling.
Of those, 56% have been reprimanded for
throwing something like a can in the trash
instead of recycling it, while 35% have been
reprimanded by youngsters for not washing
out cans or jars properly before putting them
out with the recycling. Almost half (45%)
of parents are influenced by their kids to
“think Green” when food shopping, said the
MPMA, with more than half encouraged by
their kids to buy items in packaging that can
be recycled.
However, despite the prompting from their
children, 20% of parents often throw things
out that could be recycled because they’re
confused about what can and can’t go in
the recycling bin; almost half admitted they
sometimes throw recyclable items in the trash
because it is easier.
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Personal care packaging manufacturer Albéa recently donated
1,500 airless pumps and bottles for hydroalcoholic
hand sanitizing solutions to the University of Paris-Saclay
in France. Albéa, acquired in June by Silgan Dispensing,
manufactured the packaging at its site in Lacrost, Burgundy.
As part of a solidarity operation with local hospitals
and health care personnel, the hydroalcoholic solution was
formulated by engineers from the ISMO—a laboratory at
the university’s Faculty of Sciences of Orsay. Some of the
filled hand sanitizer pump bottles were provided to socially
distanced students taking first-year exams in Health Studies
onsite at the university.
In addition, the laboratories of the Faculty of Sciences also
donated protective material such as masks, gloves or overalls
to hospitals, while the Lacrost production site also donated
masks to the Chalon sur Saône hospital in Burgundy.
Lysol has announced plans to invest more than $20 million over three years to expand
HERE for Healthy Schools into low-income U.S. schools, reaching 15 million children
by 2022. Through education, research funding and strategic partnerships, this program
aims to minimize the spread of germs in the classroom.
Starting this fall, Lysol aims to reach 50%
of Title 1 schools with its Healthy Habits
program, a partnership between Lysol and the
National Education Association and National
Parent Teacher Association. It includes downloadable
activities for teachers and parents of
children in grades K-5 to help them build illness-prevention habits to
help schools reopen safely and successfully amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition, Lysol will partner in a product donation program with
schools and expand its partnership with health technology company Kinsa
on a smart thermometer donation program called FLUency this fall.
In other Lysol news, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has announced the approval of using Lysol Disinfectant Spray
and Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist to protect against SARSCoV
2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Lysol Disinfectant Spray was
also evaluated in a peer-reviewed study for effectiveness against SARSCoV
2, which was published in the American Journal of Infection Control
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