“Covestro’s new Roadmap streamlines the regulatory process, making it easier to transition ideas for waste reuse into reality,” said Lisa Marie Nespoli, Senior Manager of Product Safety and Stewardship. 

Through the use of the roadmap, Covestro is able to identify and evaluate projects based on their viability and adherence to strict safety and regulatory criteria across three primary areas, which include: identification of a customer or collaborator that will safely use the product as a substitute in its process; evaluation of the new product and application to ensure it does not increase the hazard profile of the original material; and documentation of the application under the Environmental Protection Agency’s recycling legitimacy criteria.

“Safety has always been a core tenet of our business,” said Haakan Jonsson, Chairman and President of Covestro LLC. “This award shows our forward thinking, combining our commitment to safety with our vision to become fully circular. Preventing hazardous waste from being discarded and safely turning it into new products is a critical piece of the circular economy, and we now have a process to make it a reality.”

Covestro has already implemented several projects in the United States using the new roadmap and intends to expand the program throughout the company.