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Valuing nature

International Coastal
Cleanup Day (ICC Day)

For seventeen years, Dow Thailand Group
has initiated and organized the International
Coastal Cleanup Day on the coast of Rayong. This
world event rallies people on the third Saturday
of September to come and get rid of garbage on
beaches. In Rayong each year, Dow, together with
the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand, local
businesses, non-profit organizations and the
communities around the facilities, pitch in. In
2019, Dow and our friends together with 4,500
volunteers collected 9.7 tons of garbage along
15.1 kilometers of coastline. The garbages were
sorted into plastic waste, recyclable waste and
general organic waste, to be recycled and put into
use in the circular economy. The cleanup result-
ed in protection of the sea and marine lives
leaving the beaches clean and pristine. The vol-
unteers also went home with greater awareness
of tackling the problem by waste seperation.

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