HOUSTON, Oct. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TotalEnergies
Petrochemicals & Refining USA,
Inc., an affiliate of broad energy company TotalEnergies (NYSE:
TTE), today announces its participation as a funding partner of the
Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, an initiative of The Recycling
Partnership.
TotalEnergies' collaboration within the Polypropylene Recycling
Coalition will focus on increasing curbside recycling access for
polypropylene (PP) to ensure this packaging material is widely
recovered and reused in end-markets including food and beverage
packaging, consumer products and automotive parts.
"TotalEnergies is pleased to partner with The Recycling
Partnership's Polypropylene Recycling Coalition as part of our
Company's ambition of producing 30% recycled and renewable polymers
by 2030," said Paul
Colonna, Vice President, Polymers Americas. "We are
committed to strengthening the recycling and circularity of
polypropylene and working with our customers to develop innovative
products with ever-higher performance, particularly in terms of the
environment."
The primary focus of The Partnership's Polypropylene Recycling
Coalition is to achieve the same high levels of recycling for
polypropylene as other plastics like polyethylene terephthalate
(PET) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE). The path to achieve
this goal is through contribution of grants to recycling facilities
and targeting consumer education efforts as well as recycling
infrastructure improvements.
To learn more about The Recycling Partnership's Polypropylene
Recycling Coalition and how to join, visit
recyclingpartnership.org/polypropylene-coalition/
About TotalEnergies
TotalEnergies is a broad energy
company that produces and markets energies on a global scale: oil
and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and
electricity. Our 105,000 employees are committed to energy that is
ever more affordable, clean, reliable and accessible to as many
people as possible. Active in more than 130 countries,
TotalEnergies puts sustainable development in all its dimensions at
the heart of its projects and operations to contribute to the
well-being of people.
About TotalEnergies in the United
States
TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining
USA, Inc. is headquartered in
Houston, Texas and is a major
producer of polypropylene, polystyrene, styrene and base chemicals
in the United States. As a
major player in the U.S., we bring value along the whole
refining and petrochemical chain of production. Our investments
lead the way to clean and affordable fuels and polymers.
About TotalEnergies Recycling
TotalEnergies has the
ambition of producing 30% recycled and renewable polymers by 2030.
TotalEnergies is working on all types of recycling:
- In mechanical recycling with its subsidiary Synova,
the French leader in the production of recycled polypropylene for
sustainable applications for the automotive or construction
industry.
- In chemical recycling, TotalEnergies announced in
September 2020 the construction of
France's first chemical recycling
plant on its Grandpuits zero-crude platform. This new plant will
use Plastic Energy's patented technology to transform plastic waste
that is not generally recyclable into a pyrolysis oil called
Tacoil, which will then be used as feedstock in TotalEnergies'
steam crackers to produce polymers with properties identical to
virgin polymers.
TotalEnergies is also a world leader in bioplastics.
The joint venture between TotalEnergies and Corbion owns a plant in
Thailand producing 75,000
tons/year of PLA, a 100% bio-based, recyclable and biodegradable
bioplastic. In September 2020, it
announced the construction of a second plant with a capacity of
100,000 tons/year on the Grandpuits zero-crude platform in
France.
TotalEnergies is a founding member of the Alliance to End
Plastic Waste, which consists of around 40 companies invested in
the plastics and consumer goods value chain. They have
pledged to allocate more than $1
billion, with a goal of reaching $1.5
billion by 2025, to the implementation of solutions to
eliminate plastic waste in the environment, particularly in the
oceans.
About The Recycling Partnership
The Recycling
Partnership is the action agent transforming the U.S. residential
recycling system for good. Our team operates at every level of the
recycling value chain and works on the ground with thousands of
communities to transform underperforming recycling programs and
tackle circular economy challenges. As the leading organization in
the country that engages the full recycling supply chain, from
working with companies to make their packaging more circular and
help them meet climate and sustainability goals, to working with
government to develop policy solutions to address the systemic
needs of the U.S. recycling system, The Recycling Partnership
positively impacts recycling at every step in the process. Since
2014, the nonprofit change agent diverted 375 million pounds of new
recyclables from landfills, saved 968 million gallons of water,
avoided more than 420,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases, and
drove significant reductions in targeted contamination rates. Learn
more at recyclingpartnership.org
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