With the update to Chemours’ Corporate Responsibility Commitment 2030 goals, we are sharpening our priorities and advancing a more circular economy. This includes enhancing manufacturing processes to reduce water use and waste, and expanding opportunities for product and packaging reuse and recycling. We also introduced a new circularity ambition: to separate our business growth from resource consumption and cut waste by embedding circular practices across our operations and collaborating with partners. As part of this journey, we will outline specific targets and performance metrics in future sustainability reports to ensure we stay on a positive circularity path.
Our circularity ambition aligns with our broader efforts to use essential resources efficiently, minimize waste, address climate impacts, and support thriving communities. As our expertise in circularity, product carbon footprints, and lifecycle assessments evolves, we expect growing overlap between our circularity initiatives and climate objectives.
Across our facilities, many existing systems already reflect circularity principles, enabling more effective use and reuse of materials. We contribute to a circular economy through programs that support the safe recovery, reclamation, and reuse of our products worldwide—including refrigerants. These initiatives help customers extend the life of materials and return them to the value chain, conserving resources, reducing waste, and generating long-term value.
Circular Water Processes
Freshwater availability is increasingly strained in many regions due to rising demand, environmental degradation, and climate pressures. As a result, applying circular practices to water stewardship has become even more critical. We manage water locally to address watershed-specific issues, such as water stress, and tailor our strategies to the needs of our business and stakeholders.
To evaluate water risks, we rely on tools such as the World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct (Version 4.0) and the World Wildlife Fund’s Water Risk Filter (Version 5.0). Identifying ways to reuse and recycle process water remains a key priority. For instance, our mining and mineral separation operations in Florida and Georgia consistently reuse and recycle water throughout mineral extraction, separation, and land rehabilitation. At the Mission Mine in Georgia, careful water management enables repeated reuse, returning most water to the surficial aquifer, with only about 20% of withdrawn water requiring treatment and off-site discharge.
Material Efficiency and Waste Management
We are enhancing our approach to circularity by maximizing the value of materials and products while reducing operational waste. Improving material circularity will become increasingly central to our performance strategy, representing a significant shift in how we view waste—from something to manage to a resource that can be transformed into new materials. This shift informed our expanded goal to achieve a 70% reduction in landfill intensity by 2030, aligning with our circular aspiration for materials.
We also encourage employees across Chemours to rethink waste management, including landfill-related waste, to lessen our environmental footprint and support local communities. Our volunteer Landfill Champions Network plays an important role by promoting waste-reduction and recycling efforts, motivating colleagues to adopt more sustainable habits, and sharing successful approaches.
Demonstrating our dedication to resource efficiency, our Thermal & Specialized Solutions business has developed a global F-gas Lifecycle Program operating across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. This program focuses on advancing the safe recovery, reclamation, and reuse of fluorinated gases (F-gases) within our Opteon low-GWP products, Freon refrigerants, and FM-200™ offerings. We continue to invest in and broaden reclaim pathways worldwide. A recent feasibility study also showed a promising method for recycling Nafion™ membranes used in chlor-alkali production by removing impurities and reprocessing the material into a high-quality recycled film.
Our product packaging also influences the waste produced by our customers, and we are working to help them lower their waste impact by researching and designing packaging solutions that support reuse and recycling. We will continue refining opportunities and improving reporting capabilities. Examples of reusable packaging include railcars, tank and bulk trucks, ISO containers, Flo-Bins, and barges. Recyclable options include static-dissipative packaging; flexible intermediate bulk containers; plastic drums and pails; and metal drums.
Our circularity ambition aligns with our broader efforts to use essential resources efficiently, minimize waste, address climate impacts, and support thriving communities. As our expertise in circularity, product carbon footprints, and lifecycle assessments evolves, we expect growing overlap between our circularity initiatives and climate objectives.
Across our facilities, many existing systems already reflect circularity principles, enabling more effective use and reuse of materials. We contribute to a circular economy through programs that support the safe recovery, reclamation, and reuse of our products worldwide—including refrigerants. These initiatives help customers extend the life of materials and return them to the value chain, conserving resources, reducing waste, and generating long-term value.
Circular Water Processes
Freshwater availability is increasingly strained in many regions due to rising demand, environmental degradation, and climate pressures. As a result, applying circular practices to water stewardship has become even more critical. We manage water locally to address watershed-specific issues, such as water stress, and tailor our strategies to the needs of our business and stakeholders.
To evaluate water risks, we rely on tools such as the World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct (Version 4.0) and the World Wildlife Fund’s Water Risk Filter (Version 5.0). Identifying ways to reuse and recycle process water remains a key priority. For instance, our mining and mineral separation operations in Florida and Georgia consistently reuse and recycle water throughout mineral extraction, separation, and land rehabilitation. At the Mission Mine in Georgia, careful water management enables repeated reuse, returning most water to the surficial aquifer, with only about 20% of withdrawn water requiring treatment and off-site discharge.
Material Efficiency and Waste Management
We are enhancing our approach to circularity by maximizing the value of materials and products while reducing operational waste. Improving material circularity will become increasingly central to our performance strategy, representing a significant shift in how we view waste—from something to manage to a resource that can be transformed into new materials. This shift informed our expanded goal to achieve a 70% reduction in landfill intensity by 2030, aligning with our circular aspiration for materials.
We also encourage employees across Chemours to rethink waste management, including landfill-related waste, to lessen our environmental footprint and support local communities. Our volunteer Landfill Champions Network plays an important role by promoting waste-reduction and recycling efforts, motivating colleagues to adopt more sustainable habits, and sharing successful approaches.
Demonstrating our dedication to resource efficiency, our Thermal & Specialized Solutions business has developed a global F-gas Lifecycle Program operating across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. This program focuses on advancing the safe recovery, reclamation, and reuse of fluorinated gases (F-gases) within our Opteon low-GWP products, Freon refrigerants, and FM-200™ offerings. We continue to invest in and broaden reclaim pathways worldwide. A recent feasibility study also showed a promising method for recycling Nafion™ membranes used in chlor-alkali production by removing impurities and reprocessing the material into a high-quality recycled film.
Our product packaging also influences the waste produced by our customers, and we are working to help them lower their waste impact by researching and designing packaging solutions that support reuse and recycling. We will continue refining opportunities and improving reporting capabilities. Examples of reusable packaging include railcars, tank and bulk trucks, ISO containers, Flo-Bins, and barges. Recyclable options include static-dissipative packaging; flexible intermediate bulk containers; plastic drums and pails; and metal drums.