In the interest of overall sustainability in the coatings industry, Resinate Materials Group has committed large efforts to demonstrate utility, practicality, performance and advantages in tapping recycled and biorenewable streams for polyol development. This approach is very much aligned with the concept of accounting for the full impact of coatings from raw material cradle to grave.1 Much of the work has been driven toward neat polyester polyols for coatings, adhesives, foams and plasticizers, however, a few of the materials have been reduced with appropriate solvents to enable formulation work at lower viscosity. One of the recent areas of focus has therefore been enabling the translation of high-performance polyols from solvents into water-based platforms to create even higher sustainability properties. Emulsions and dispersions have demonstrated their ability to convert high-viscosity, high-molecular-weight materials into a water-continuous, low-volatile organic compound (VOC), low-viscosity package. Our recent work has successfully demonstrated this conversion of several new sustainable, performance polyols into polyurethane dispersions, suitable for coatings and adhesives. The resulting dispersions were tested against commercial benchmark products, and provided both matching and superior performance, making this sustainability option advantageous in multiple categories.