BASF recognized with environmental stewardship award

MCINTOSH, AL, October 14, 2020 – The BASF facility in McIntosh, Alabama received a 2020 Environmental Stewardship Award from Partners for Environmental Progress (PEP) for the site’s pollinator garden. By installing a pollinator garden and outdoor classroom, local students can explore chemistry through safe and engaging experiments, coupled with interactive demonstrations. To date, more than 300 students have visited the garden and outdoor classroom at the McIntosh facility.

The pollinator garden stems from the biodiversity research initiative that BASF launched called Living Acres. While populations of the monarch butterflies have plummeted by approximately 90 percent and continue to decline, this initiative is pushing forward to provide information to farmers about planting milkweed in non-crop areas in an economical and practical manner with the goal of increasing the monarch population.

“We are honored to receive a PEP Environmental Stewardship Award,” said Bob Mulholland, interim Site Director for BASF’s McIntosh facility. “Helping to ensure a healthy monarch butterfly population is part of BASF’s commitment to sustainability and being responsible environmental stewards.”

PEP presented the award to BASF during its virtual annual meeting on September 24. PEP is a coalition of business and education leaders who share the vision of applying science-based environmental best practices to business and community issues. Founded in 2000, the organization promotes business growth while preserving and enhancing the environmental and quality of life along the Gulf Coast.

For more information about BASF’s Living Acres initiative and how it is helping monarch butterflies, visit http://www.basf.us and www.basf.us/alabama. For information about PEP’s Environmental Stewardship Awards, visit http://www.pepmobile.org.

About BASF

BASF Corporation, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has more than 18,800 employees in North America and had sales of $18.4 billion in 2019. For more information about BASF’s North American operations, visit www.basf.com/us.

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. More than 117,000 employees in the BASF Group work on contributing to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is organized into six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €59 billion in 2019. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S. Further information at www.basf.com.