Dow and Boomera Ambipar announce partnership to expand circular economy activities

Companies work to close the packaging cycle through strategies to ensure the end-to-end circularity of plastic.

Dow and Boomera Ambipar have just taken an important step towards closing the cycle in the plastic waste chain, with a focus on developing new solutions and involving all players in the plastic packaging cycle.

According to the companies, the sustainability strategy aims to encourage the conversion to a circular economy that allows the reuse of materials. The companies will work together on a pilot project to expand the collection of domestic and industrial waste that would go to landfills, ensuring that they are recycled. The project has a nationwide scope and actions are scheduled for 2023.

The purpose of this action is to expand the scope and job opportunities that are already being developed by the Dow & Ambipar Group with logistics projects such as the Sustainable Corridor. This new moment consists of expanding investments and actions with waste picker cooperatives, developing new products, mainly resins, that meet the ESG goals of each of these sectors.

“The strengthening of the partnership and our commitment is an example of how Dow works to advance collaborative actions, helping to close the plastics cycle, which is one of our main goals. By 2035, we intend to have 100% of Dow products sold in reusable or recyclable packaging applications and we believe that only through cooperation with the entire value chain will we be able to achieve this goal” – Carolina Mantilla – Director of Sustainability, Packaging and Specialty Plastics at Dow .

According to Dow, some of the main practical actions of the partnership consist of evaluating plastic waste, preparing facilities to recover these materials, selecting models for collection and large-scale conversion, while improving the quality of all recyclable plastics, and contribute to designating an end market for the conversion of these recycled materials.

“Tenemos proyectos con Dow y Ambipar desde hace años y ambos fueron fundamentales para fomentar el trabajo con cooperativas de recolectores y desarrollar una línea de resinas de alta calidad, importante para el mercado brasileño”, dijo Gui Brammer, CEO y fundador de Boomera Ambipar.

Según la empresa, a través de esta colaboración también será posible ampliar el trabajo existente con las cooperativas de reciclaje, donde se realizan mapeos de residuos, capacitación de recolectores y estudios de recolección en las comunidades para apoyar el desarrollo de mejores prácticas y optimizar la recuperación de estos. desechos

“Es muy importante para Ambipar poder contar con empresas que sean referentes en sus sectores, porque así podremos garantizar que todos los eslabones de la cadena del plástico estén trabajando por la circularidad y el reciclaje, generando importantes aportes sociales y económicos. impacto ambiental”, dijo Cristina Andriotti, directora general de Ambipar Medio Ambiente.

Las empresas también afirman que trabajarán para desarrollar procesos y cumplir con las especificaciones para el reciclaje avanzado, lo que permitirá ampliar la cartera de resinas, aumentar la adquisición de materias primas para explorar formas de desarrollar nuevas resinas plásticas, más sostenibles y diseñadas para la reciclabilidad.

Dow ofrece una cartera de plásticos, intermedios industriales, recubrimientos y siliconas para una variedad de productos y soluciones basados ​​en la ciencia para clientes en segmentos de mercado de alto crecimiento, como empaques, infraestructura, movilidad y aplicaciones de consumo. Dow opera 104 plantas de fabricación en 31 países y emplea aproximadamente a 35.700 personas. En 2021, generó aproximadamente $ 55 mil millones en ventas.

Founded in 2011, Boomera was created to value and give new life to waste that would end up in landfills, especially materials considered difficult to recycle. With its own CircularPack methodology, the company claims to work with the circular economy from end to end, having a materials laboratory and a partnership with more than 8,000 members, and transforming waste into circular products. Founded in 2011, Boomera Ambipar was one of the first companies in the circular economy certified as a B Corp, a member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and awarded Social Entrepreneur of the Year by Folha de São Paulo and the Schwab Foundation in 2019 and, in 2020, with recognition of the World Economic Forum.

Photo: From left to right: Tatiana Brammer (CMO Boomera Ambipar), Andre Kenji (Business executive Boomera Ambipar), Cristina Andriotti (CEO Ambipar Environment), Izabel Assis (Commercial VP, Packaging and Specialty Plastics at Dow), Gui Brammer ( CEO Boomera Ambipar), Carolina Mantilla (Sustainability, Packaging and Specialty Plastics director at Dow), Giancarlo Fanucchi (Sustainability, Packaging and Specialty Plastics manager at Dow), Laura Nagle (Business Communications leader, Packaging and Specialty Plastics at Dow ), Marcelo Cantu (R&D and Innovation Director, Packaging and Specialty Plastics at Dow) and Victoria Vilena (Senior lawyer at Dow)

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