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Everyone has a role to play in creating a more sustainable world: Dow is taking action to address the full scale of challenges, collaborating with partners to improve the industry’s processes and through innovation to help communities become more sustainable.
‘Rivers Are Life’ Highlights Local River-Restoration Efforts with Potential for Global Impact
1 week ago - The platform highlights and connects individuals who are enacting river-beneficial solutions in their own communities. These 'River Heroes' represent efforts that start on a local scale but create ripple effects that expand beyond.
Technological Ingenuity in African Nations: How They Are Solving the Plastic Waste Challenge
3 weeks ago - Enabling a circular economy is a complicated challenge that governments, communities and businesses globally are struggling to solve. But as Dow’s work in Africa proves, solutions exist — and success comes when organizations and communities collaborate to create change rooted in local context.
Yes, Beach Cleanups Still Play an Important Role in Ocean Restoration
1 month ago - The overall puzzle of ocean restoration is complex; but to Dow, it is clear that organized cleanups are one of the most important pieces — because they can create a spark that will ignite the type of passion it takes to drive change.
With a Sustainability Strategy Fully Embedded, How Do You Maintain Momentum to Reach Your Goals?
1 month ago - “We’ve been working on design for recyclability for years now. But the next step is to make packaging fully recyclable and then collect the packaging to recycle it into new products. We’re very close to creating a low-carbon, circular economy.” — Han Zhang
A New Era of Sports Sponsorship: Connecting Branded Merchandise with Circular Innovation
2 months ago - Despite more leagues and arenas introducing initiatives to curb waste from concessions and encourage recycling, the science and innovation necessary to create lasting impact across the board (or the court or field) are still missing. That's where Dow and its partners come in.
Accelerating mechanical recycling: Dow becomes first to achieve traceability and recycled content certification for PE compounds
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In Conversation with Dow: The Unexpected and Unconventional Partnerships That Launch Circular Solutions
2 months ago - Dow Sustainability Director Julie Zaniewski kicks off this conversation series by sharing insights into how the chemical giant is shaking up business as usual to deliver solutions.
Finding New Within the Old: Innovating to Advance the Circularity of Plastic
3 months ago - Rather than focus solely on plastic alternatives, we must consider the full lifecycle of materials to see the benefits of circularity. Three technologies are surfacing as viable solutions to increase plastic’s circularity with low-carbon performance at the core.
A Springboard for Circularity: Investment in NY Recycling Infrastructure to Create Ripple Effect Across the US
4 months ago - These investments offer proof-of-concept for scaling more investments in waste infrastructure across North America. Modernizing Sims’ recycling capabilities acts as a circularity laboratory, which can lead to better design for the whole US recycling system.
How a Corporate ‘Lifer’ Helped Transform a Century-Old Business into a Sustainability Front Runner
5 months ago - When it comes to making sustainable business a reality, the journey is just as important as the destination. Few companies prove this more than Dow — provider of many of the chemical, plastic and consumer solutions that the world needs to successfully transition to a low-carbon economy.
Dow to simplify plastic waste-to-feedstock process through investment with start-up Plastogaz
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New Project in Greater Boise Turns Hard-to-Recycle Plastics into Community Infrastructure
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After Disaster in Texas, Community and Industry Come Together to Transform Water Infrastructure
7 months ago - Disasters such as the aftermath of the February 2021 ice storm that left millions of Texans without running water lay bare the urgent need for updated utility infrastructure across the US. This would involve repairing and replacing hundreds of thousands of miles of water piping — but what should be used in their place?
How to Fuel a Sustainable Future for Packaging
8 months ago - Solving the ongoing packaging conundrum demands a significant shift in how businesses think — moving from a linear to a circular model of operation to improve the amount of packaging that can be reused, recycled and returned to the value chain.
Dow achieves new milestones to helping to promote a circular economy in China with Liby’s sustainable packaging
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Dow invests in recycler, Mr. Green Africa, to address waste management gaps and accelerate a circular economy for plastics in Africa
8 months ago - Dow invests in recycler, Mr. Green Africa, to address waste management gaps and accelerate a circular economy for plastics in Africa