Eunice Heath is the global director for sustainable products marketing and strategy at The Dow Chemical Company.Heath is responsible for driving integration of sustainability in business and market strategies. She leads Dow’s participation in the Sustainability Consortium and other sustainable products initiatives. Recently, at the invitation of the Dutch Embassy in Washington, D.C., Heath represented Dow on a Circular Economy panel designed to reach the American business community. The objective of the discussion was to highlight circular economy approaches as sustainable business models and encourage the policy-making community to encourage legislation to support sustainable investments.
“For Dow, the circular economy isn't a theme or a concept – it's a mindset shift that requires a redesign of systems/value chains, innovation, and new business models,” stated Heath.
“We have built a strong foundation towards a circular economy over 20 years of our sustainability journey, by improving our resource management, developing technologies to support our customers' efficiency and enabling technologies that improve resource management, longevity, durability and environmental performance for the planet. We have built a footprint, a hand print and are now developing a blueprint on what it takes to transform from a linear economy to a circular economy.”What is a circular economy for Dow?
The circular economy is maximizing value and use of resources, by designing more efficient systems, materials and turning what used to be waste into resources that can be used again. The circular economy is keeping resources at the highest value throughout their life cycles.
For example, Dow polymeric adsorbent technology helps enable the treatment of flow back and produced water from fracking operations at Moneta Divide by removing boron and other harmful organic compounds. The Moneta Divide is a ridge in Fremont County, Wyoming with an elevation of 5,964 feet, or 1,818 meters above sea level.
The DowTerneuzen Netherlands Site is advancing a water circular economy through a breakthrough public-private partnership they have established to accept Municipal Wastewater reuse 3X.
The Energy Bag pilot program, which took place in Citrus Heights, California and Dow helped turn 6,000 pounds of previously non-recycled plastic waste – juice pouches, candy wrappers, and plastic dinnerware – into 512 gallons of fuel.
Among Heath's many talents and accomplishments, she has a strong passion for the development and advancement of people and support of STEM which is represented by her leadership on the corporate Diversity & Inclusion Council.
In support of developing the next generation of talent, Heath also manages the sustainability higher education programs and relationships for Dow, which includes overseeing the implementation of the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award program at 18 global strategic universities.
Heath joined Dow in 1991 as part of the Commercial Development Program and has worked in a myriad of marketing, sales and supply chain roles, including positions as global business director for Polyoxtm Water Soluble Resins in 2002, marketing & sales director for Dow Wolff Cellulosics in 2007, general manager of home and personal care in 2009 and senior director of Northeast Government Affairs and Corporate Citizenship, STEM Education in early 2012.
Heath earned her MBA at the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Florida.
