Dow Joins Ellen MacArthur Foundation Circular Economy 100
May 18 2016 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Company offers science and innovation expertise to develop
scalable solutions that close resource loops
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) is the latest global company
to join the Circular Economy 100 (CE100), the Ellen MacArthur
Foundation’s pre-competitive innovation program. The CE100
commitment aligns to Dow’s 2025 Sustainability Goal, “Advancing a
Circular Economy,” and convenes stakeholder groups and
organizations to learn, collaborate, network and build capacity in
order to realize and achieve their circular economy ambitions
faster. By collaborating with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and
joining industry partners on this endeavor, Dow will expand its
efforts in helping to lead the transition to a circular economy
that recycles, reuses and remanufactures goods.
“Dow is honored to join the Ellen MacArthur Foundation CE100
network. This is a great opportunity to foster collaborations that
can advance circular economy solutions across multiple value chains
and geographies,” said Dr. Neil Hawkins, Dow’s corporate vice
president and chief sustainability officer.
As part of the program, Dow will offer a platform for material
and chemical innovation. The Company will lend its science and
innovative expertise to help develop scalable solutions to enable
purity of materials, an essential aspect for effective materials
flow within the circular economy.
"The move to a circular economy will require a broad spectrum of
innovation. Dow brings to the CE100 a strong track record of
research and development, and we are looking forward to seeing how
this expertise will contribute to the network, to open up new
opportunities for collaboration and innovation,” said Casper Jorna,
CE100 program lead for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Dow is proud of its recent circular economy breakthrough
innovations, including:
- Dow’s Water and Process Solutions
(DW&PS) business focused on water purification technology that
offers ecological and economical value by increasing sustainability
over time. DOW FILMTEC™ ECO Reverse Osmosis elements deliver 40
percent improved water purification while using 30 percent less
energy.
- Dow’s Packaging and Specialty Plastics
(DP&SP) business partnered with the Sustainable Packaging
Coalition and Accredo Packaging to produce Seventh Generation’s
first recyclable Dishwasher Pods packaging. The pouches, which do
not sacrifice performance or aesthetics, can be recycled at more
than 18,000 store drop-off locations throughout North America.
As part of Dow’s 2025 Sustainability Goals, the Company will
partner with other industry leaders, non-profit organizations and
governments to deliver six major circular economy projects to
facilitate the world’s transition to a circular economy. Through
its innovation and science expertise, Dow is committed to
delivering solutions that optimize the design, production, use and
recovery phases of products and services and close resource loops
to benefit society.
For more on the CEO100 program and its members, visit
www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/ce100.
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.
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