What has Dow done to reduce dioxin emissions?
Dow has reduced its emissions of dioxin to air and water by more than 85 percent since 1995 through a number of dioxin abatement and technology projects.. These projects included new source reduction technology (such as recycling waste chlorinated organics back into the production process, and new manufacturing technologies that produce fewer by-product dioxins), improved incineration technology and abatement, scrubbers to reduce stack emissions, filters for water emissions, and other post-treatment technologies such as recycling waste streams for reuse, and capturing and containing in regulatory-approved secure landfills. Dow considered emissions to air and water to be the highest priority for reduction as these have more potential to impact human health and the environment compared to dioxins in solid wastes sent to secure on-site landfills.
