Sustainable Packaging Innovations to Drive a More Circular Economy and Eliminate Marine Debris

Jeff Wooster Global Director Packaging & Specialty Plastics Realizing a Vision for Improved Recovery

A Future Where All Plastic Packaging Goes Into the Recycle Bin

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Source: GreenBlue

3 ®™Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) or an affiliated company of Dow Innovations Metrics Improved Sustainability Performance: Environmental, Social, & Economic Fewer GHG Emissions & Less Use Lower Costs & Less Resource Depletion Better Health & Wellness Benefits Increased Competitiveness & Better Quality Employment Reduced Waste and Leakage from the System Better Utilization of Resources Less & Less Marine Debris

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5 ®™Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) or an affiliated company of Dow Supporting Research & Improving Materials Management

6 ®™Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) or an affiliated company of Dow One Piece Closures 0% Equivalent to taking 9,028 cars off the -2% road -4%

Equivalent to taking -6% 84 Million Pounds of 14,390 cars off the -8% CO2 Avoided road -10% Annually* Potential in Global Warming -12% 134 Million Pounds of -14% CO2 Avoided

Change Change -16% Annually* -18% -20% 2.7g 2-Piece 2.5g 1-Piece (HDPE) 2.3g 1-Piece (HDPE)

(2.4gPP/ 0.3gEVA) * Assuming 45 Billion Closures are used for carbonated soft drinks in North America Annually.

6 ®™Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) or an affiliated company of Dow CONTINUUM Bi-Modal HDPE Resins What can molecular architecture design flexibility offer?

Sustainability & Performance Benefits

Improved Balance of such as:

Properties such as: Light weighting Stiffness, ESCR, Improved stackability

Processability & Impact Cycle time reduction

Resistance Improved Toughness Higher PCR tolerance

7 ®™Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) or an affiliated company of Dow Stand-Up Pouch Designing Recyclability into an Existing Package Format

9 ®™Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) or an affiliated company of Dow RETAIN Compatabilizer

Allowing More Types of Packaging to be Recycled

Packaging Re-Pelletizing Recycled Film Films

Basic Film Process

This process works well for films that are made from PE Typically doesn’t work well for multi-material films such as PE/EVOH coextruded films used for their oxygen barrier

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(42.5 μ) - PE 829562 5L 5%EVOH Control (5 μ) - Tie Traditional Barrier (5 μ) - EVOH Barrierpackaging Film Structurecontaining (5 μ) - Tie EVOH (42.5 μ) - PE

829564 5L 5%EVOH EVOH:RC 1:1 11 (42.5 μ) - PE + RETAIN™ Recyclable (5 μ) - Tie Barrier Film (5 μ) - EVOH Structure (5 μ) - Tie (42.5 μ) - PE + RETAIN™

50 μm film

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By promoting and supporting innovation, we can encourage businesses, governments, and non-governmental organizations to develop better solutions to the world’s biggest challenges.

These solutions can help us improve resource efficiency by driving a more circular economy, eliminate waste from industrial processes, and reduce litter and marine debris by providing increased incentive and new tools to capture the value of materials we have already created.

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Contact Information: Jeff Wooster The Dow Chemical Company 1254 Enclave Parkway Houston, TX 77077 Email: [email protected] Mobile Phone: +1.281.796.0307

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