SC Johnson has left the Plastics Industry Association amid a campaign by Greenpeace and other environmentalist organizations to pressure companies into exiting the group.

Greenpeace released a statement Tuesday announcing that SC Johnson had told it that the company had allowed its membership with the association to expire. SC Johnson is the manufacturer of popular household chemical products such as Pledge and Windex.

Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and three other groups are urging companies to leave the Plastics Industry Association, which they accuse of fighting efforts to reduce plastic pollution. The campaign scored a public relations victory in July when PepsiCo and Coca-Cola both announced their intention to leave the association.

"This should be a wakeup call for the plastics industry," Greenpeace USA Oceans Campaign Director John Hocevar said in a statement. "SC Johnson, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo have all recognized that standing alongside a group working to strip away the rights of communities to reduce our reliance on dangerous plastics is not good for business."

In a statement to the industry news site Plastics News, association CEO Tony Radoszewski criticized the campaign as ultimately unhelpful.

"While these actions may make for successful fundraising tactics, the results are unfortunately counterproductive by inhibiting our efforts to unite representatives from the full supply chain to work on meaningful advances," he said. http://bit.ly/2lHR3QQ

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