LyondellBasell employees around the world are engaged in activities that help make their communities a better place to live and work. In addition to the articles below, you can read about our involvement in the community by focus area.
We bask in their shade, admire their beauty, and can even swing from their branches. Trees are a vital part of the ecosystem. They improve air quality, harbor wildlife, and moderate the climate. What happens when their water supply disappears? In 2011, Houston lost millions of trees to the most severe drought in 44 years.
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Like all communities, Channelview, Texas, has residents who have hit on hard times, and have trouble making ends meet. These unfortunate folks are more fortunate than many in other areas. They have a place to go for a hot lunch Monday through Friday.
When LyondellBasell’s Bayport Underwood Plant observed 25 years of operations in the Bay Area of Houston, Texas, its employees wanted to celebrate. Not with a gift for themselves, but with a present for their neighbors that would bring together the plant’s three focus areas of the environment, their community and its local schools.
Employees at LyondellBasell's Wesseling, Germany, site held a "Feel Well Initiative" event in June 2008 that’s become a tradition for the whole community – a marathon.
LyondellBasell manufacturing sites in the South of France have long been committed to promoting and developing sound relations with their communities. Years ago, the refinery started organizing Community Advisory Panel (CAP) meetings with its neighbors in Berre and Rognac. Similarly, LyondellBasell’s operations in Fos are widely recognized for transparent dialogue with the communities.
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