LanzaTech, Total & L’Oréal Announce a Worldwide Premiere: the Production of the First Cosmetic Plastic Bottle Made From In...
October 27 2020 - 3:32AM
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Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT):
Through their innovative partnership, LanzaTech, Total and
L’Oréal have premiered the world’s first sustainable packaging made
from captured and recycled carbon emissions. The successful
conversion process takes place in three steps:
- LanzaTech captures industrial carbon emissions and
converts them into ethanol using a unique biological process.
- Total, thanks to an innovative dehydration process
jointly developed with IFP Axens, converts the ethanol into
ethylene before polymerizing it into polyethylene that has the same
technical characteristics as its fossil counterpart.
- L’Oréal uses this polyethylene to produce packaging with
the same quality and properties as conventional polyethylene.
It is a technological and industrial success proving that
industrial carbon emissions can be used to produce plastic
packaging. This world first demonstrates the commitment of the
three partners to the development of a sustainable circular economy
for plastics and paves the way for new opportunities for the
capture and re-use of industrial carbon emissions.
The partners now intend to continue working together on scaling
the production of these sustainable plastics and look forward to
working with all those who want to join them in committing to the
use of these new sustainable plastics.
LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren said: “This partnership
is based on a shared goal of creating a cleaner planet for
everyone. We are grateful to both L’Oréal and Total for their
commitment to reducing the carbon intensity of their activities.
Together, we can reduce the carbon footprint of packaging by
converting carbon emissions into useful products, making single-use
carbon a thing of the past.”
Senior Vice President Polymers, Total, Valérie Goff
announced: "This partnership is an excellent example of
collaboration between industrial firms in developing the plastics
of the future produced from recycled carbon and meets a strong
demand from our customers. The development of this new pathway of
valuing industrial carbon emissions also contributes to the Group's
commitment to get to net zero in Europe by 2050”.
Jacques Playe L’Oréal Packaging & Development Director,
L’Oréal, said that “L’Oréal is constantly improving the
environmental footprint of its packaging. With this innovation
converting carbon emissions into polyethylene, we aim to develop
new sustainable packaging solution. We have the ambition to use
this sustainable material in our bottle of shampoo and conditioner
by 2024 and we hope other companies will join us in using this
breakthrough innovation.”
About LanzaTech
Carbon recycling company, LanzaTech is a global leader in gas
fermentation, making sustainable fuels and chemicals via biological
conversion of waste carbon emissions, including industrial
off-gases; syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g.
municipal solid waste), organic industrial waste, agricultural
waste); and reformed biogas. LanzaTech’s expertise in fermentation
scale up, reactor design, machine learning and synthetic biology
has enabled the company to commercialize its recycling process and
demonstrate production of over 100 different chemicals. With global
investors and partners, LanzaTech has a pipeline of commercial
projects around the world and is working across the supply chain to
provide novel circular solutions to mitigate carbon by producing
consumer goods that would otherwise come from fresh fossil
resources.
Founded in New Zealand, LanzaTech is based in Illinois, USA and
employs more than 170 people, with locations in China, India and
Europe.
Further information is available at www.lanzatech.com
About Total
Total is a broad energy company that produces and markets fuels,
natural gas and electricity. Our 100,000 employees are committed to
better energy that is more affordable, more reliable, cleaner and
accessible to as many people as possible. Active in more than 130
countries, our ambition is to become the responsible energy
major.
About L'Oréal
L’Oréal has devoted itself to beauty for over 100 years. With
its unique international portfolio of 36 diverse and complementary
brands, the Group generated sales amounting to 29.87 billion euros
in 2019 and employs 88,000 people worldwide. As the world’s leading
beauty company, L’Oréal is present across all distribution
networks: mass market, department stores, pharmacies and
drugstores, hair salons, travel retail, branded retail and
e-commerce.
Research and innovation, and a dedicated research team of 4,100
people, are at the core of L’Oréal’s strategy, working to meet
beauty aspirations all over the world. L’Oréal sets out ambitious
sustainable development goals across the Group for 2030 and aims to
empower its ecosystem for a more inclusive and sustainable
society.
More information: https://mediaroom.loreal.com/
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