Avient’s 2024 Sustainability Report: Significant Progress and New Commitments
August 8, 2025
Avient Corporation Announces Annual Sustainability Report Highlighting Achievements in 2024
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CLEVELAND – August 8, 2025 – Avient Corporation is pleased to announce the release of its 2024 Sustainability Report. The annual report highlights the company's continued dedication to environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and governance excellence, building on the significant progress made in the past year to advance the company’s purpose of innovating materials solutions to help customers succeed while enabling a sustainable world.
This year’s report highlights the company’s key sustainability achievements, including:
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction: Avient achieved a 52% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions in 2024 compared to 2019, making significant progress toward its 2030 goal of 55%
- Renewable Energy: The company met its 2030 goal of sourcing 60% of its electricity from renewable sources, achieving 61% in 2024
- Waste Reduction: Avient reduced waste-to-landfill intensity by 5% in 2024, exceeding its goal of a 3% annual reduction
- Sustainable Sourcing: The company assessed suppliers representing 75% of its total spend for sustainability alignment in 2024, moving closer to its 2030 goal of 90%
- Safety Performance: Avient achieved its best safety performance to date in 2024, with a Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) of 0.40 per 100 employees
The report also outlines the following three new sustainability goals established in 2025 to achieve by 2030:
- Implement water stewardship plans for all facilities in extremely high-risk water locations
- Achieve 75% ACC RC14001 certification of manufacturing sites
- Engage 100% of manufacturing sites with their local communities
Additionally, the report showcases Avient’s sustainability recognitions awarded in 2025, such as:
- Newsweek America's Most Responsible Companies
- Newsweek America's Greenest Companies
- Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies
- Forbes Net-Zero Leaders
“These acknowledgments reflect Avient’s commitment to sustainable materials innovation, operational decarbonization, and product-level circularity,” said Walter Ripple, Vice President of Sustainability at Avient. "We are proud of the progress we've made toward our 2030 sustainability goals, which are a testament to the dedication and passion of our global employees. We invite you to read our 2024 Sustainability Report, which highlights these achievements and outlines our plans for the future. This includes our commitment to continuing our journey toward a more sustainable future, not just for our company, but for our customers and the communities we serve."
To view and download the full 2024 Sustainability Report, click here.
About Avient
Our purpose at Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT) is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world. Our local touch and customer engagement, combined with our global presence, allows us to serve customers with agility. We harness the collective strength of more than 9,000 employees worldwide to collaborate and build on each other’s ideas. In doing so, we innovate solutions that help our customers overcome their challenges or capitalize on opportunities provided by the fast-changing world and secular trends. Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™. By intersecting our broad portfolio of technologies with the product roadmaps of our customers, we help create differentiated and high-performance products that make the world better and more sustainable. Visit www.avient.com to learn more.
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Nicole DeChant
Avient Corporation
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