American Cleaning Institute's Sustainable Feedstocks Initiative and Screening Level LCA Database for Cleaning Product Ingredients

Presenter: Nathan Sell, Senior Director, Sustainability at The American Cleaning Institute (ACI)

Title: American Cleaning Institute’s Sustainable Feedstocks Initiative and Screening Level LCA Database for Cleaning Product Ingredients

Abstract: The American Cleaning Institute launched an initiative in 2023 to define and drive the use of more sustainable feedstocks in cleaning products and their ingredients throughout the industry. The Sustainable Feedstocks Initiative is aimed at identifying risks and opportunities among common cleaning product feedstocks and ingredients to allow decision making that increases the number of cleaning products on the market that use more sustainable ingredients.

With this Initiative, ACI is asking participating members to:

• Identify relevant feedstocks, risks, and sustainability opportunities across cleaning ingredient portfolios


• Increase the use of more sustainable feedstocks and feedstocks created with more sustainable production practices across cleaning ingredient portfolios


• Collaborate across the cleaning product value chain to drive increased transparency, availability, and adoption of more sustainable feedstocks

In addition, ACI has developed, with the help of the Anthesis Group, a screening level LCA database for common cleaning product ingredients. This database serves as a comparison tool with a variety of ingredients sourced from various raw materials. In using this database, ACI member companies can see how different ingredients compare in several impact areas including; global warming potential, land use, fossil resource scarcity and water consumption.