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“It feels great to be able to tackle challenges and come up with an answer,” says Dr Yao Weiguang, Dow’s chief technology officer for Asia-Pacific, after helping to upcycle unwanted polyurethane bicycle tyres into raw materials for building playgrounds in China’s rural communities. The sustainable initiative has been carried out jointly by the American materials science company and Meituan, a Chinese e-commerce platform. Qin Hao, who is in charge of Meituan’s sustainability development of bicycles and motorcycles, says: “We drove for 8 hours on winding mountainous roads to see children at the school having fun on the playground. That moment was very touching.”

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