How do you recycle plastic? | TotalEnergies.com

03/17/2022

TotalEnergies accelerates in plastic recycling, with the ambition to produce 30% recycled and renewable polymers by 2030. But do you know do you recycle plastic ?

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How do you recycle plastic?

Who knew?

Most plastics in today’s world are recycled using mechanical recycling processes, which involve sorting, crushing, melting and transforming the non-contamined waste, into plastic material.

In recent years, this recycling method has been receiving invaluable help from an ally, named advanced recycling.

This technology is capable of recycling and transforming more complex plastic waste into synthetic oil, or syngas, and thereby addressing other markets.

This process also creates polymers boasting equivalent properties to virgin polymers!

These two methods combined will enable us to achieve our ambition of producing 30% recycled and renewable polymers by 2030.

Who knew? Now you do!