Dow AgroSciences is now using shipping boxes made of a minimum of 80% post-consumer recycled content for its pest management and crop protection products manufactured in North America.
“We have a corporate culture around sustainability, and much of what we do is focused on continuous improvement and enhancing sustainability,” said Patrick Bell, product manager, Turf and Ornamental. In 2008 Dow AgroSciences began investigating the use of higher recycled paper content in the boxes for products manufactured in North America. At that time, shipping boxes contained only 20% recycled material.
“We challenged ourselves to see how high we could go on the recycled content, and we were very pleased that we could go as high as we did,” said Paul Ouillette, senior packaging engineer, who led the sustainability initiative. “This is about moving the sustainability bar higher for our company.”
