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Eliminating plastic waste

Keeping plastics

out of the environment

Eliminating
Plastic Waste
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stopping plastic waste from ending up in the environment.
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storage and transportation of physical
components (machinery, pipes, containers)
as well as the working process when plastic
is transferred from the production section to
the packing section
● Brainstorming ideas to reduce plastic
pellet leakage; for example, modifying pipe
fittings
● Adding various measures to manage
plastic pellets that could otherwise escape
into the environment; for example, regularly
cleaning the floors to reduce the plastic
pellets spills, installing traps in gutters around
Operation Clean Sweep plants and warehouses, etc.
Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) is a project ● Persuading logistics service providers
established by the American Chemistry Council's Plastics to become members of Operation Clean
Division and Plastics Industry Association (ACC), which Sweep and taking serious measures by
has been in action for over 25 years. The objective is organizing training and regularly monitoring
to ensure that plastic resin manufacturing and handling service providers
operation strictly prevent pellets, flakes, and plastic
powder from leakage to protect the environment and
conserve valuable resources.
Since 2018, Dow Thailand Group has participated
in Operation Clean Sweep and undertaken several
meaningful actions. With support from Dow's supply chain
and suppliers, the company continuously ensures that
plastic pellets and powders passing through Dow's
plants and warehouses are handled carefully without any
leakage into rivers or the sea, which would harm aquat-
ic animals. As a result of intensive operations in 2020,
Dow Thailand Group has seen no plastic entering the
environment from Dow's operations.

Some of Dow's key actions as part of Operation
Clean Sweep include:
● Analysis of connecting points that could release
plastic pellets from the production process; including

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