At our core, we believe in the potential of our products — to impact lives, initiate meaningful change and establish a more sustainable future, while driving growth and satisfying the needs of our end-users.
Our commitment to forward-thinking innovation focuses our product design, procurement and packaging on minimizing our environmental footprint.
By partnering with our supply chain to reduce the environmental impacts of what goes into our products, being a leader in electrified outdoor equipment and reducing plastics in our packaging, we're working to develop innovations that benefit our end-users — on and off the jobsite.
2023 Impact Highlights
~20%
Of Our Suppliers
by spend, have set science-based Scope 1 & 2 targets that meet our criteria¹
~$1B
In Sales
of electric outdoor and other high-powered products²
700K+
Pounds
of problematic plastics eliminated since 2020³
100%
Coverage
of North American market for end-of-life recycling for products⁴
54,974
Tools Reconditioned
through our Product Reconditioning Program, saving an estimated 343 tons of waste from landfill⁵
Accelerating Electrification
Our advances in battery technology are ushering in an electric future.
As partners in our sustainability journey, we’ve set ambitious emissions targets for our suppliers and are working together to improve our shared environmental performance.
Safety matters above all...always. We build safety directly into our products — from extensive testing to products designed to reduce dust, noise and vibration.
“As we progress down the path towards circularity, we continue to build on our progress in evolving our packaging toward renewable and recyclable materials, including innovative and user-friendly applications that revitalize an old standby, cardboard. This is a collaborative effort across our business ecosystem, energized by the people of Stanley Black & Decker.”
Chris Nelson Chief Operating Officer, EVP and President of Tools & Outdoor
Embracing the principles of circular design, we continue to invest in creating and commercializing products that are more sustainable and eco-friendly. By directly addressing today’s biggest challenges, our products are helping create a cleaner future.
DEWALT’s new high-performance biobased bar and chain oil for chainsaws offer an environmentally safer, no-compromise alternative to conventional petroleum oils. Designed to help maximize bar and chain life while helping to reduce pollution, this lubricant made from North American-grown plant oils delivers 100% compatibility and superior anti-wear protection.
This USDA Certified Biobased Product addresses a key issue: roughly 20 million gallons of bar and chain oil are discharged into the environment every year, in a 100% loss application since there is no way to capture and recycle the oil that is released into the environment. The responsible solution: create a biodegradable formula from renewable, sustainable plant oils.
This new sustainability-led line of BLACK+DECKER power tools, featuring enclosures made from recycled plastics, hit the marketplace in 2022. Its sustainably engineered, certified 50% recycled content comes from our materials partner Eastman and their proprietary copolyester molecular recycling process. As these tools draw significant current to operate, the housing plastic must be certified for flammability resistance—which Eastman’s highly consistent chemical recycling delivers. In addition, reviva™ packaging is frustration-free, paper-based and 100% recyclable.
Decarbonizing our Products
Our commitment to sustainable innovation focuses our product design, procurement and packaging on minimizing our environmental footprint.
Our engineering and procurement teams have created a cross-functional task force to evaluate the procurement of more sustainable materials that maintain or improve product performance while reducing indirect emissions from purchased goods and services. In 2023, we reduced the intensity of our Scope 3 emissions by roughly 11%.
Our investment in supplier development resources underscores our global commitment to fostering a sustainable, resilient supply chain. To improve our supplier resiliency, our Supply Chain leadership has created a task force to work directly and regularly with our top suppliers to drive efficiencies, process innovations, including through setting science-based Scope 1 and 2 targets of their own and sharing methods to operationalize those commitments. Through 2023, 20% of our suppliers by spend have set Scope 1 and 2 targets.
Battery-powered innovation across our product portfolio continues to be a driving force in enhancing the user experience — and in delivering environmental benefits of reduced emissions from the use of our products, as well as noise reduction. Electrification, particularly in the transition away from gas-powered and hydraulic means of powering our tools and equipment in the field, delivers reductions of emissions from the use phase.
Take DEWALT POWERSHIFT™ — launched at the World of Concrete industry event in early 2024, this new line is designed to meet the critical needs of concrete professionals with power, runtime, and ergonomics that allow users to transition away from gas-powered equipment without compromising efficiency and performance.
Our engineering-led task force is deriving insights on our emissions reduction opportunities, employing a scenario analysis tool that includes parameters such as our electrification transition rate, market size projections, and electric infrastructure improvements, which allows us to map our journey to our 2030 goal.
Designing for Circularity
Every product we make carries an environmental impact — through its creation, use and end-of-life disposal. Using Lifecycle Assessments, we can evaluate our products’ environmental footprints and identify new areas to improve our sustainability practices.
Our sustainable packaging task force has removed more than 700,000 lbs. of problematic plastics from packaging over the past several years. As we look toward setting a specific target for sustainable packaging progress in 2025, our task force remains focused on:
Minimizing the use of problematic plastics, specifically PVC and EPS,³ from all new product packaging and replacing with cardboard.
Reducing the size of the redesigned packaging to use fewer materials and allow room for more products on our customers’ shelves.
Exploring the use of durable, reusable containers as part of our focus on a higher level of circularity.
Powering a sustainable future means using more high energy batteries (300+ watt hour), which places unique demands on recycling infrastructure to keep people, property, and the environment safe once those batteries reach end of life.
Made possible through voluntary funding by us, our partner Call2Recycle, Inc., has established the High Energy Battery Recycling Program to facilitate the safe collection and responsible recycling of high energy batteries used in products such as riding mowers and snow blowers.
Evolving Our Packaging
Saying Goodbye to Problematic Plastics
Demonstrating our commitment to creating a responsible product lifecycle, our Sustainable Packaging Policy replaces problematic materials with widely recyclable alternatives and educates end-users about our packaging.
“We desire more sustainable materials to make our products and understand that the path forward is collaboration with suppliers. We are actively encouraging our suppliers to invest in decarbonizing their operations through process innovation, on- and off-site renewable energy programs, management system enhancements and other best practices so that we can deliver the functionality of our products to end-users with the lowest impact.”
End-user safety is paramount. Our quality management system includes extensive testing before our products ever reach the market, as well as in-market testing to continually improve the innovative tools, outdoor equipment and industrial fastening solutions we put into the hands of professionals, tradespeople and DIYers.
Perform & Protect on the Jobsite
For trades professionals, the DEWALT PERFORM & PROTECT™ line reduces dust, noise and vibration while increasing control. Over 220 OSHA Table 1 compliant dust solutions, including shrouds, extractors and extraction accessories, reduce airborne dust exposure, increase user visibility and cut down on tool maintenance costs. Integrated torque control features such as our AntiRotation E-CLUTCH® System and Kickback Brake help protect the user in bind-up situations. Our SHOCKS ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROL® System reduces vibration felt at the handles by 20%. Through this technology, we’re helping create safer, less taxing workplaces and jobsites.
DEWALT 68 lb. 1-1/8 in. Hex Pavement Breaker
Built for challenging jobs, this high-performance pavement breaker helps the pros complete heavy-duty demolition applications. Delivering 35 joules of impact energy, this powerful tool is ideal for floor trenching, breaking out stairs/risers, creating openings into shafts, breaking asphalt and loosening/breaking hard surfaces.
DEWALT 20V XR® Brushless 1-18 in. SDS Plus D-Handle Rotary Hammer
To take on challenging concrete applications, this D-handle rotary hammer delivers up to 3 joules of impact energy for fast, large-diameter hole drilling. OSHA Table 1 compliant when used with the DWH205DH On Board Extractor.
DEWALT TOUGHSYSTEM 2.0 Adjustable Work Light with Storage
This modular lighting solution illuminates work areas, even at demanding jobsites. Powered by 20V MAX* batteries, this durable, versatile solution features two pivoting LED heads that provide up to 3 hours of runtime. That’s why it won a 2023 Pro-Tool Innovation Award.
1. For the purpose of this goal, “67% by spend” is measured against our spend with Tier 1 suppliers. To meet our criteria, a supplier’s target must cover Scope 1 and 2 emissions and follow a reduction trajectory over 5–15 years that aligns with the Paris Agreement’s “well below 2°C” pathway.
2. Electric Outdoor is classified as any corded or cordless outdoor product sold in our portfolio. High Powered Products include: 1) Professional Brands such as DEWALT, Proto, Hustler, or STANLEY in the industrial space and 2) Any product with a battery operated voltage greater than 20V Max such as Flexvolt @ 60V and Powershift.
3. Problematic plastics include polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and expanded polystyrene (EPS). Both are plastics commonly found in durable goods packaging.
4. End-of-life recycling through our TerraCycle recycling program, which includes power tools, hand tools, tool accessories, and home appliances.
5. Our Product Reconditioning Program is designed to provide a second life to thousands of returned products that come back to our retailers. We focus on implementing cost-effective and environmentally conscious methods of processing returned goods to reduce waste. In 2023 we reconditioned tens of thousands of tools across over 250 SKUs, saving several hundred tons of waste from landfills.
