The Dow Chemical Company Using innovation and collaboration to create value Erica Ocampo, Sustainability Manager Packaging and Specialty Plastics The Dow.

The Dow Chemical Company

Using innovation and collaboration to create value

Erica Ocampo, Sustainability ManagerPackaging and Specialty PlasticsThe Dow Chemical Company

THE HARD STUFF IS JUST THE NEXT FRONTIER

2?Which Attributes Make Packaging Sustainable?

Recyclable / % Content

Biobased

Compostable

Biodegradable

Uses less material

3!The Truth is: It Depends. Utilize Life Cycle Thinking

Emissions

Water

Energy

Waste

Biodiversity

Land

Landfill

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Distribution & Retail

Consumer Use End of Life

Consider the Entire LIFECYCLE

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LCA

Linear system

Life Cycle AnalysisCradle to Grave

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Product Manufactur

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Distribution & Retail

Consumer Use

End of Life

Integrated Systems Approach: Engaging The Value Chain for Collaborative Development

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Cradle to Cradle

Integrated system

Collaboration

Value Chain

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Integrated Systems Approach: Solutions in ContextThink Global Act Local

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Product Manufacture

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Distribution & Retail

Consumer Use

End of Life

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Context

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A Breakthrough Collaboration: The Economics of Ecosystems

GOAL: to apply methods to evaluate the benefits nature provides – such as fresh water, clean air, and flood protection – and develop a roadmap for how companies can assess, incorporate and invest in nature and these benefits

TEXAS PILOT: The modeling results demonstrated that reforestation could be a cost-effective emissions abatement strategy when compared to the end-of-pipe control

technology currently deployed. This approach also provides broader benefits to Dow and local communities

Polyethylene Stand Up Pouch PE SUP

Pouch illustrations are for representative purposes only; Dow does not manufacture the actual pouch, nor produce these types of retail products.

mono-materialvs.

multi-material

performance

lightereasy

preserve resources

reduce waste

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How2Recycle label is hitting the stores!

Sustainable Packaging Coalition® is a trademark of GreenBlue Fee Sponsorships Available.

Project with strong member support, a SCIENCE-BASED approach, and supply chain COLLABORATION. Building packaging systems

that generate economic prosperity and sustainable material flows. Help us make sense of recycling!

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• National public awareness campaign to

INCREASE PE film recovery •

• Flexible Film Recycling Group (FFRG) provides signs, bins and other materials to PROMOTE

effective PE film recycling•

CONSUMER OUTREACH Initiative

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New plastic FILM recycling website!

A tool created to EDUCATE the general public, municipalities, and businesses about how to recycle postconsumer and postcommercial

polyethylene film that is found in nearly every business and household.

This website is sponsored by the plastics industries of the American Chemistry Council where Dow is an active member.

Throwing Away Packaging

Throwing Away Food & Products

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U.S. EPA’s Integrated SOLID ‘WASTE’ Management Hierarchy

• All options are needed to minimize disposal in landfills. RESOURCE CONSERVATION is key •

Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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Urbanization

Public Health Concerns

1900s

1910s

Municipal Refuse

Builds UpCitizens Demand

Action

Innovation in

CollectionMSWM

institutionalized as government service Refuse

trucks transformed to

mechanized vehicles

“Great Patriotism

Era of Recycling”

WWII Material Collected

for War Effort

Crossroads

1930s

1940s

1960s-90s

1985-Today

TODAY

New Products

Create “Crisis”

Throw-away Society

Recycling Re-emerges

From 16.7% in 1985 to today’s

recycling rate at 34.7%Source: http://www.productpolicy.org/content/history-waste as presented by

Richard Abramowitz at Dow 4/4-5/13

Solid Waste History - Themes

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It is CHANGE, CONTINUING change, INEVITABLE change, that is the dominant factor in society today.

No sensible decision can be made any longer WITHOUT taking into account not only the world as it is, but THE WORLD AS IT WILL BE....

ISAAC ASIMOV

This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a

science fictional way of thinking.

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• Imagine a world where hard to recycle plastics are a valuable

resource •

Convert Non-Recycled plastic (NRP) packaging from waste to energy/fuels

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How does it work?

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What for?• Show that plastics are too valuable to waste

and that NRP can be transformed into energy when mechanical recycling is not an option

• Close data gaps (pilot report, including characterization qudits)

• Increase awareness of alternative waste landfill diversion methods (new technologies)

• Promote behavioral change (better recycling)

• Share pilot learning with everybody

• Educating consumers

• Harvest the power of collaboration

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We CANNOT defend the status quo and at the same time build a sustainable future

PATRICIA REITERDirector, Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives (ASU)

sustainability

social responsibility

collaboration

innovation

solutions

voice

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Speaker Contact Information

Phone: +1.281.966.4332Cell Phone:+1.979.824.5151Email: [email protected]: @ericaoca

Mailing address:1254 Enclave ParkwayHouston, TX 77077, USA

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