The pilot project recovered approximately 12,500 pounds of plastic collected from Meijer customers through in-store recycling bins

Midland, Michigan, November 11, 2021/PRNewswire/ - Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) has partnered with Meijer to use recycled plastic bags and adopt new paving technology for this retailer in Michigan The super center in the Netherlands has created a more durable parking lot. This Recycled Polymer Modified Asphalt (RPMA) parking lot is a three-phase pilot project that uses approximately 12,500 pounds of post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR), equivalent to 944,000 plastics The weight of the food bag.

The project enables the complete recycling of recycled plastic bags and also represents a long-term cooperation between the two companies in Michigan to achieve a more sustainable future.

"Meijer's business philosophy is that to be a good company, we must be a good neighbor, which usually means collaborating with other like-minded companies for a common goal," said Rick Keyes, President and CEO of Meijer. "We are committed to reducing our impact on the environment and are pleased to work with our customers and Dow in this type of largest in-state project to better demonstrate our commitment to the circular economy by recycling and reusing plastics. Better to ensure a more sustainable future."

All recycled plastic used in the parking lot pilot project is stored by Meijer customers through the retailer's in-store plastic film recycling program. In 2014, Meijer placed a collection box at the front door entrance of each of its stores for customers to store clean and dry plastic bags and films, including disposable plastic bags, bread bags, dry-cleaning bags, produce bags and soft water bags. This year, Meijer expects to recycle 6 million pounds of plastic through the program.

"It is important for us to reduce our environmental impact by increasing recycling work. That's why we believe this pilot project is just one of the ways we can improve our customers’ shopping experience while making our current recycling work in full swing. Said Vik Srinivasan, Meijer's senior vice president of real estate and real estate.

Powered by Dow’s ELVALOY™ Reactive Elastic Terpolymer (RET) technology, these RPMA projects have higher durability than unmodified asphalt.

"This is an exciting partnership from start to finish, and a perfect example of how plastics (such as bread bags) used to keep food safe and fresh can be used as infrastructure such as parking lots to gain new life," CJ DuBois, North American Road Paving Said Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics Application Development Leader. "Our collaboration with Meijer began two years ago. This RPMA parking lot made of recycled materials and our ELVALOY™ RET is just how we continue to create new technologies and programs to turn old plastics into practical and valuable solutions An example."

This pilot project unites many partners to transform recycled plastic into repaved parking lots. PADNOS is a material recycler that aggregates the plastic recovered by Meijer and converts them into usable PCR content. K-Tech Specialty Coatings is an asphalt emulsion company that modified the base asphalt binder with ELVALOY™ RET and PCR content. The construction contractor Rieth-Riley produced the final hot mix asphalt and laid the Meijer parking lot and gas station.

Meijer's pilot parking lot project is not the first for Dow. The company started to carry out these projects in Indonesia in 2017 and cooperated with the Indonesian government to achieve the goal of reducing plastic waste in the ocean by 70% by 2025. In August 2021, Dow completed an RPMA public street at the University of Missouri. Prior to this, Dow completed two RPMA roads in the Freeport, Texas plant, completed two roads in the Dow Sabine River operating area where ELVALOY™ RET was produced, and completed two roads in the Great Lakes Bay area of ​​Michigan Four public roads and two parking lots-a total of about 14,000 pounds or more than 1 million plastic bags. These RPMA projects are only part of helping Dow achieve its 2030 goals, through its direct actions and partnerships, to collect, reuse or recycle 1 million metric tons of plastic.

The B-Roll lens of this project is located on the Internet: https://dow.cimediacloud.com/r/tjhpD6Hyuupe

About Meijer Meijer is a retailer headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It operates 258 supermarkets and grocery stores in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. Since 1934, as a private and family-owned company, Meijer has pioneered the concept of "one-stop shopping" and has developed over the years to include an expanded fresh produce and meat department, as well as a pharmacy, a comprehensive clothing department, a pet department, and a garden Centers, toys and electronics. For more information about Meijer, please visit www.meijer.com. Follow Meijer on Twitter @twitter.com/Meijer and @twitter.com/MeijerPR, or become a fan at www.facebook.com/meijer.

About Dow Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation and leading business positions to achieve profitable growth. The company's goal is to become the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable material science company, aiming to create a sustainable future for the world through our material science expertise and cooperation with partners . Dow’s plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones business portfolio provides customers in high-growth market segments such as packaging, infrastructure, mobile and consumer care with a wide range of differentiated scientific products and solutions. Dow has 106 manufacturing sites in 31 countries/regions and approximately 35,700 employees. Dow's sales in 2020 are approximately 39 billion U.S. dollars. References to Dow or the company refer to Dow and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.

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