Dow supplies circular polymers globally, advancing plastic recycling efforts

Recently, Dow announced several advances in preventing plastic waste, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing customers with recycled plastic products that have the same performance as virgin plastic derived from fossil fuel feedstocks
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These advancements will allow Dow to offer customers an initial supply of fully recycled polymer starting in 2022
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Dow and Fuenix Ecogy Group are extending an initial agreement between the two companies to scale up the production of circular plastics through advanced recycling technologies by building a second plant in Weert, the Netherlands
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The new plant will process 20,000 tons of waste plastic into pyrolysis oil feedstock for the production of new round plastics at Dow's Terneuzen plant in the Netherlands
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Dow and Gunvor Oil Rotterdam have finally reached an agreement to purify pyrolysis oil feedstocks derived from plastic waste
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Gunvor will supply Dow with pyrolysis feedstock for the production of round plastics starting in 2021
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Purification processes are necessary to ensure that the pyrolysis oil feedstock is of sufficient quality to produce new polymers
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Dow is accelerating the design, engineering and construction of a market development scale purification plant in Terneuzen, The Netherlands, to provide additional capacity to purify pyrolysis oil feedstocks derived from plastic waste
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Dow has entered into a multi-year agreement with Taylor, Texas-based New Hope Energy to supply the company with pyrolysis oil feedstock derived from recycled plastics in North America
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New Hope Energy converts waste plastics into pyrolysis oil feedstock, which Dow will use to produce round plastics
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In preparation to offer certified circular plastic products to its customers, each of Dow Chemical's major European and U.
S.
plants has achieved or is about to receive International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC)
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Certification requires an independent external audit to ensure that the product supply chain is fully traceable and that Dow and its suppliers adhere to and accelerate sustainable practices
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These advancements complement Dow's recently announced partnership with Mura Technology to support the rapid expansion of Mura's new HydroPRS™ (Hydrothermal Plastics Recycling Solution) advanced recycling process
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The world's first plant to use HydroPRS™ is being developed in Teesside, UK, and the first 20,000 tpa production line to provide Dow with additional recycled feedstock is expected to be operational in 2023
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All of these efforts have enabled the recycling of currently non-recyclable plastics, including flexible plastics used in packaging, which today are often incinerated or sent to landfills
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The Dow is taking important steps to meet its sustainability goals to combat climate change and plastic waste
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The company has set a goal, through its direct actions and partnerships, to collect, reuse or recycle 1 million metric tons of plastic by 2030, and to make 100% of its products reusable or reusable from sale to packaging applications by 2035 recycled
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