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Recovering plastic waste from the environment (both pre and post-consumer waste), CirculenRecover uses a mechanical recycling process to produce recycled resins. By processing the plastic waste through the shortest recycling loop, a lower carbon footprint can be achieved.

Historically, recycled polymers have been associated with low-end applications and were often noted to be less durable or lower in quality. However, these mechanically recycled polymers, produced by our Quality Circular Polymers (QCP) joint venture, are a class on their own. CirculenRecover offers a consistent, high-quality recycled material that can be used in a number of applications, such as consumer rigid packaging and caps and closures. 

• Available in a wide range of colors 
• Carefully sorted and cleaned to ensure consistent quality feedstock 
• Continually invest and improve in recylate quality. Our latest investment (NIR sorter) will be operational by summer 2021, allowing us to improve our grey quality and extend the applications we serve. 

Discover how QCP polymers were recently used to create products for brand owners in our latest Sustainability Report. 

To learn more about LyondellBasell’s mechanical recycling investments, click here. 

Using advanced (molecular) recycling technology, CirculenRevive polymers are on their way to becoming one of the solutions that can address at scale the challenge of hard-to-recycle plastics. With a wider selection of plastic waste to use, CirculenRevive can take plastic waste that is not easily recovered by mechanical recycling and convert it into a feedstock to produce new polymers. This allows for larger volumes of plastic waste to return back into the value chain as high-quality polymers while accomplishing a lower CO2 footprint. 

• A drop-in solution for all types of applications
• Produces clean feedstock made from recycled materials for new polymer production 
• Enables the production of new materials for applications that must meet strict regulatory requirements such as food packaging and healthcare items 
• Are similar to virgin polymers while offering an environmental value proposition to brand owners around the world 
• LyondellBasell's Wesseling, Germany cracker and European polymer manufacturing sites are ISCC PLUS certified. Read the press release here.

LyondellBasell is developing its own advanced recycling technology to improve the ability to transform plastic waste to high-end quality polymers while improving the overall CO2 footprint. LyondellBasell established a molecular recycling pilot plant in Ferrara, Italy, which is processing household plastic waste at a rate of 5 to 10 kg an hour. 

To learn more about LyondellBasell’s molecular recycling investments, such as MoReTec, click here. 

With renewable-based raw materials, such as used cooking oil, as a feedstock, CirculenRenew offers a variety of polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (HDPE and LDPE) grades that are equivalent to virgin resin quality while reducing fossil feedstock use and helping to reduce CO2 over the product life cycle. The renewable polymers offer the same properties in terms of product performance as well as regulatory approvals. CirculenRenew and CirculenRenew Plus products (or grades) can therefore be applied, with no restrictions, to the same applications as fossil-based equivalents offering the same properties and performance. This makes these new grades a perfect drop-in solution for applications like food packaging and/or high-quality requirement films such as surface protection films. 

• CirculenRenew Plus products have a measurable renewable-based content which can be determined by C14 analysis. The renewable-based content is measured and stated as a parameter on the Certificate of Analysis (CoA). 
• CirculenRenew products are sold by issuing mass-balance based Sustainability Declaration Certificates. A third-party certification process provides traceability along the supply chain and verifies that the mass balance accounting aligns to predefined and transparent rules. 
• LyondellBasell’s Wesseling, Germany cracker and European polymer manufacturing sites are ISCC PLUS certified. A peer reviewed and International Organization of Standards (ISO) certified Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) has been undertaken on the greenhouse gas (GHG) claim of CirculenRenew polymers. Read the press release here.

Discover how LyondellBasell is Advancing a Circular Economy through collaboration and technology investments, such as our collaboration with Neste to create these polymers, click here.