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International. Dow and Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) announced a joint development agreement (JDA) to create a new recycling technology. The vision is to enable the efficient conversion of hard-to-recycle plastic packaging into recycled polyethylene with near-virgin quality and a low greenhouse gas emissions footprint.

To create the new technology, companies will combine their proprietary technologies and know-how in the dissolution process. The development programme will focus on the use of dissolution technology to recycle a wide range of plastic materials, focusing on polyethylene and focusing on post-household plastic waste (especially rigid, flexible and multi-layer packaging, which is more difficult to recycle).

The technology aims to deliver a high-quality post-consumer recycled polymer (PCR) with a lower greenhouse gas emissions footprint than fossil-based polyethylene. P&G plans to use this PCR polymer in its packaging, which will enable a path to circularity that helps maximize resource utility and reduces materials treated as waste.

The global partnership between Dow and P&G begins immediately and is expected to continue through commercialization.

Both Dow and P&G have bold ambitions to accelerate circularity. Dow has a sustainability goal of Transforming Waste and commercializing three million metric tons of circular and renewable solutions by 2030, and P&G's vision is to use 100% consumer packaging designed to be recycled or reusable by 2030.