Dow & Luhai Environmental Protection Launches China's Plastics Circular Economy

On September 22, Dow Company and Xiamen Luhai Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Luhai Environmental Protection), a comprehensive operation service company for recyclable solid waste, reached a cooperation. The two parties aim to give new waste plastics recycled by Luhai Environmental Protection. Value and improve China’s plastic recycling rate. This cooperation is in line with Dow’s new STOP THE WASTE sustainable development goal: through independent actions and cooperation, to achieve the global collection, reuse or recycling of 1 million tons of plastic by 2030.

The land-sea environmental waste management business is committed to waste collection and recycling in China, especially various post-consumer plastics. At present, Luhai Environmental Protection mainly focuses on collecting household recyclable waste from Fujian Province, and plans to expand its business to other cities in China.

Through this strategic cooperation, Dow will use its expertise in material science and application development to process plastic waste collected by land and sea environmental protection, and develop new circular economy solutions for the Asia-Pacific market.

"Plastic waste is one of Asia's biggest environmental problems, but it is also a valuable resource that can be converted into new products. We are actively working with partners to create new applications and add new value to this important resource", Dow Li Mingzhuang, vice president of Asia Pacific Business of Packaging and Specialty Plastics Business Unit, said. "We have made great progress in realizing the common vision with Luhai Environmental Protection: to realize the closed-loop management of plastic recycling and promote much-needed changes. Therefore, we are very happy that Luhai Environmental Protection can become our plastic recycling partner.

Dow is committed to separating plastic waste from the environment in order to protect the ecosystem on which local communities depend. Through this cooperation, Dow will demonstrate its value by showing different packaging applications of recycled plastics, and ultimately promote the recycling and utilization of post-consumer plastics in local communities.

According to the data, Luhai Environmental Protection's regeneration processing center in Zhangzhou is a national resource recycling base, covering an area of more than 130 acres. It has the country's leading solid waste recycling processing technology and has established a production process that combines automation and human engineering control. . The base handles 150,000 tons of solid waste annually. The main products are recycled plastics, recycled paper pulp, biomass fuel pellets, etc.

Jiang Fengfeng, general manager of Luhai Environmental Protection Co., Ltd., said: “As a pioneer in China’s waste recycling industry, we have been committed to transforming plastic waste into high-value products for two decades, and giving plastic a second life through the waste management value chain. Accelerate the development of China's "waste-free city". We are very happy to work with Dow to explore innovative ways to use plastic waste, provide long-term environmental solutions for our industry, and further achieve sustainable development goals."

Cooperation with organizations that are already engaged in waste management and recycling in the value chain is the key to advancing the circular economy of plastics. Through cooperation with Luhai Environmental Protection, Dow will strive to give plastic waste that should enter the natural environment or landfill a second life, thereby reducing China's waste plastics.