Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics Collaborates with Industry Leaders to Make Trash Bags from Recycled Plastic Scrap

MIDLAND, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, a business unit of DowDuPont Materials Science, through its participation in the Trash Free Seas Alliance ®, and in collaboration with flexible packaging manufacturer Bemis Company, Inc. and Canada-based converter Polykar Inc., have developed a trash bag made from post-industrial plastic scrap. The bags will be used to clean up beaches around the United States during Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup on September 16, 2017.