Dow AgroSciences shipping in more sustainable packaging

Dow AgroSciences is 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. During a 6-month period in 2010, more than 85,000 boxes made with the new material had been manufactured and used for the company’s products. All shipping boxes were converted by the end of 2010. The boxes feature a recycling logo denoting the change in packaging material.
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 20% recycled material. Compared to the recycled material boxes, the new boxes represent annual savings of more than 2 million pounds of solid waste, more than 13.5 million gallons of waste water, more than 33,400 harvested virgin trees and more than 3 million pounds of carbon dioxide release.