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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.
Turning Plastic into Possibility: How Closing the Loop in Asia-Pacific Is Building Waste Infrastructure for the Future
3 weeks ago - The region continues to face waste challenges. But with the right solutions, Asia-Pacific has a huge opportunity to turn the tide — finding more value in post-consumer plastic and closing the loop on waste.
Putting Recycling to Work for People, Communities and the Planet
1 month ago - To create a truly circular ecosystem for plastics, we need scalable innovations to close the gap between what consumers can recycle now and which plastics might become a regular part of a future recycling system.
A Completely Different Definition of ‘Waste’: 5 Key Takeaways from the Sustainability Next Summit
1 month ago - Last month, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics and Fast Company co-hosted the virtual summit to convene policy experts, industry leaders and innovators with the expertise and resources to drive real progress toward a circular economy.
Q&A: Why Partnerships Are Essential for Delivering Circular Packaging for the Food Industry
2 months ago - While flexible packaging plays an important role in keeping food fresher longer, it has long been difficult to recycle. Designing more recyclable flexible packaging from the start and determining a better end-of-life process for current materials is a vital step in reducing food waste.
New Program Aims to Expand Plastic Film Recycling Capacity in US
2 months ago - The joint effort from WM and Dow aims to provide a solution to make it easier for households to recycle the film while the companies explore new options to reuse it. When fully implemented, the program is expected to prevent 120,000 tons of plastic film from reaching landfills each year.
WM and Dow Rollout First Major Residential Plastic Film Recycling Program in the U.S.
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Corporate-University Partnerships Support the Next Generation in Creating a Circular Future
2 months ago - Recognizing the value of education both as a strategic initiative for preparing future brand employees and as an opportunity to help shape a more sustainable value chain.
Accelerating Circularity Requires Creating a Viable Marketplace for Advanced Recycling
3 months ago - A circular plastics supply chain is still in its infancy. So, how do we work together to create a viable marketplace for advanced recycling to thrive? Here are a few strategies and approaches that show early promise.
Empowering Waste Pickers, Building Communities and Closing the Loop
3 months ago - In Latin America, where recycling rates remain below 10%, grassroots circular solutions are slowly beginning to scale — thanks to growing legitimacy, education, organization and protections for informal waste workers, who remain the backbone of the region’s collection and recycling infrastructure.
Why Partnerships with Nonprofits Are Key to a More Sustainable Future
4 months ago - Dow is leading the charge in materials science, but we can’t do that science in a box without thinking about communities and the people within them. Nonprofit partnerships help us dig to the root of the most pressing problems in sustainability, find the best solutions and gain public buy-in to create real impact.
Dow and public-private cooperation pave the way for a sustainable fashion industry in Ethiopia
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Dow’s INNATE™ TF-BOPE resins enable Lion Corporation to launch recyclable refill bags for shower cream in Thailand
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‘Rivers Are Life’ Highlights Local River-Restoration Efforts with Potential for Global Impact
4 months 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.
Dow and Mura Technology plan to locate Europe's largest advanced recycling facility at Dow's site in Böhlen, Germany
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Technological Ingenuity in African Nations: How They Are Solving the Plastic Waste Challenge
5 months 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
5 months 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?
6 months 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