Avoid using the brandline in text DOW RESTRICTED Always avoid using the words “Seek Together” set in your text. UPM BIOFUELS CIRCULATE CAPITAL IMPROVING ROADS WITH RECYCLED PLASTIC Working with our partner UPM, Dow is turning a waste residue from Circulate Capital is an impact-focused investment management firm Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, Latin America – these regions face paper production into naptha, creating an alternative and renewable dedicated to financing innovation, companies and infrastructure that different challenges. One thing they have in common? Infrastructure can feedstock for plastics production. This waste product comes from prevent the flow of plastic waste into the world’s ocean while advancing be improved. That’s why Dow is working with partners around the world sustainably managed forests - extracted as a residue when separating the circular economy. to make polymer-modified asphalt roads with recycled plastic. wood fiber for pulp production. Unlike other alternative renewable feedstocks, no extra land resources are required and there is no Dow is investing in Circulate Capital’s Roads built from recycled plastic are often more resistant to corrosion competition with the human food chain. This approach is reducing CO Ocean Fund – the first fund and incubator preventing ocean plastic. and can reduce potholes and traffic jams. Additionally, tons of plastic 2 emissions by more than 50% when compared to standard fossil derived is being diverted from landfills for the projects. And this is just the start; PE resins and the polymers produced as a result are helping packers GLOBAL PLASTIC ACTION PARTNERSHIP with our partners, we’re working toward safer, more sustainable roads. and converters to meet their sustainability goals. The Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) is driven by the World SEEK TOGETHER DOW TECHNOLOGIES Economic Forum and funded by the governments of Canada and the U.K., along with Dow and other global brands. The partnership aims to Recycling for a Change has created a training, professional development Dow offers products to support the recycling of previously hard to fast-track a circular economy by evaluating viable solutions to reduce and strategic support model that is enabling waste picker cooperatives recycle products, for example, with the use of RETAIN™ Polymer plastic pollution, prioritize these solutions for investment opportunities in Brazil to become more sustainable and profitable, while providing the Modifier multi-layer barrier films can be recycled. Dow’s work in this area and develop a roadmap for implementation. highest quality materials to enhance the plastics recycling value chain. is broadening the mix of plastic waste that can be recycled and allowing recyclers to enhance the quality and therefore value of the recycled The GPAP translates commitments into local action and supports Dow’s Alongside partners Boomera and Avina, Recycling for a Change material and end-use application. commitment to a circular economy for plastic by showing how business, represents an opportunity to support local entrepreneurism and communities and government can redesign the global “take-make- economically empower individuals, families and communities. By Dow is passionate about advancing recycling capabilities. We design dispose” economy as a circular one. developing a role-model initiative that can be implemented with products for recyclability. We innovate recycling technologies. We find cooperatives, this project will generate sustainable income for hundreds new ways to incorporate recycled content into the resins we sell. All to of families across the waste management value chain in Brazil. increase the amount of plastic recycled and reused worldwide. Do use Seek Together™ only as Do not insert the brandline artwork file Do not alter the fonts within copy to mimic approved brandline artwork. into body copy or headlines. the Seek Together™ artwork files. NOTE: Certain brand approved exceptions will be made for our Digital spaces such as Dow Connect. Contents | The DOW Diamond | Brandline | Logo and brandline together | Contact us Dow brand summary v2.2 | February 2021 15