In its latest move to advance the circular economy, The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) has just signed on as a funding sponsor of The Recycling Partnership. The collaboration is an important step in Dow’s journey to reach its 2025 Sustainability Goals, which include turning materials formerly considered waste into new products.
“At Dow, we are collaborating with other industry leaders to harness science, industries and the incredibly powerful Human Element to transition to a sustainable planet and society,” said Karen S. Carter, North America commercial vice president, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics. “From supporting the engagement of best practices in existing local recycling programs, to creating new technologies for broader material recovery, Dow is dedicated to finding solutions that increase recovery rates for plastic packaging.”
The Recycling Partnership continues to deliver tangible results, improving recovery of high quality recyclables for manufacturing feedstock across the country. In 2015 the national nonprofit leveraged $11 million of new recycling infrastructure that positively impacted 1.2 million households. In 2016, The Recycling Partnership will further transform the secondary material landscape, with curbside cart launches and quality improvement programs already slated for a number of cities, adding to the 165,000 carts delivered last year.
“We appreciate that Dow is actively engaging in real world efforts to improve the sustainability and recyclability of plastic packaging,” shared Keefe Harrison, The Recycling Partnership’s executive director. “Dow uses well-informed tactics and strategic partnerships to make progress, and it topples tough barriers with a can-do attitude. We have that in common, and we’re undoubtedly stronger together.”
Dow marks the 23rd member of The Recycling Partnership, further expanding the group’s resources and reach. For more on The Recycling Partnership’s partners, sponsors and projects, visit recyclingpartnership.org.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company is driving innovations that extract value from material, polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven, industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2015, Dow had annual sales of nearly $49 billion and employed approximately 49,500 people worldwide. The Company's more than 6,000 product families are manufactured at 179 sites in 35 countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found at www.dow.com.
About The Recycling Partnership
The Recycling Partnership (recyclingpartnership.org) is a dynamic industry collaboration focused on systematically and measurably improving curbside recycling in the United States. Working with community and industry partners nationwide, our strength lies in our best-in-class operational and technical support, proven community outreach approaches, and highly-leveraged seed grants to communities.
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Sustainable Brands Staff
Published Apr 8, 2016 2pm EDT / 11am PDT / 7pm BST / 8pm CEST