ExxonMobil to Build Its First Large-Scale Plastic Waste Advanced Recycling Facility
October 11 2021 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
- Advanced recycling operation in Baytown, Texas will be among
the largest in North America
- Commercial volumes of certified circular polymers available by
year-end 2021
- Plans underway for up to 500,000 metric tons annually of
advanced recycling capacity to be added by year-end 2026 across
multiple sites
ExxonMobil plans to build its first, large-scale plastic waste
advanced recycling facility in Baytown, Texas, and is expected to
start operations by year-end 2022.
By recycling plastic waste back into raw materials that can be
used to make plastic and other valuable products, the technology
could help address the challenge of plastic waste in the
environment. A smaller, temporary facility, is already operational
and producing commercial volumes of certified circular polymers
that will be marketed by the end of this year to meet growing
demand.
“We’ve proven our proprietary advanced recycling technology in
Baytown, and we’re scaling up operations to supply certified
circular polymers by year-end,” said Karen McKee, president of
ExxonMobil Chemical Company. “Availability of reliable advanced
recycling capacity will play an important role in helping address
plastic waste in the environment, and we are evaluating wide-scale
deployment in other locations around the world.”
The new facility follows validation of ExxonMobil’s initial
trial of its proprietary process for converting plastic waste into
raw materials. To date, the trial has successfully recycled more
than 1,000 metric tons of plastic waste, the equivalent of 200
million grocery bags, and has demonstrated the capability of
processing 50 metric tons per day.
Upon completion of the large-scale facility, the operation in
Baytown will be among North America’s largest plastic waste
recycling facilities and will have an initial planned capacity to
recycle 30,000 metric tons of plastic waste per year. Operational
capacity could be expanded quickly if effective policy and
regulations that recognize the lifecycle benefits of advanced
recycling are implemented for residential and industrial plastic
waste collection and sorting systems.
ExxonMobil is developing plans to build approximately 500,000
metric tons of advanced recycling capacity globally over the next
five years. In Europe, the company is collaborating with Plastic
Energy on an advanced recycling plant in Notre Dame de Gravenchon,
France, which is expected to process 25,000 metric tons of plastic
waste per year when it starts up in 2023, with the potential for
further expansion to 33,000 metric tons of annual capacity.
The company is also assessing sites in the Netherlands, the U.S.
Gulf Coast, Canada, and Singapore.
To meet customer demand for circular polymers, ExxonMobil has
obtained certifications through the International Sustainability
and Carbon Certification Plus (ISCC Plus) process for several of
its facilities. ISCC Plus is widely recognized by industry as an
effective system to certify products that result from advanced
recycling using mass balance attribution of plastic waste.
To help address the need for increased collection and sorting of
plastic waste, ExxonMobil formed a joint venture with Agilyx
Corporation, Cyclyx International LLC, focused on developing
innovative solutions for aggregating and pre-processing large
volumes of plastic waste that can be converted into feedstocks for
valuable products. Cyclyx will help supply ExxonMobil’s advanced
recycling projects, and will aim to do the same for other
customers.
ExxonMobil is a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic
Waste, which is focused on accelerating investment in safe,
scalable and economically viable solutions to help address the
challenge of plastic waste in the environment through a portfolio
of projects that has grown to more than 30 ongoing projects across
several countries.
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Cautionary Statement: Statements of future events,
investment opportunities or conditions in this release are
forward-looking statements. Actual future results, including
project plans, timing, capacities, and costs and recycled waste
volumes could vary depending on the ability to execute operational
objectives on a timely and successful basis; the ability to scale
projects and technologies on a commercially competitive; the
outcome of future research and technology development programs,
including the future success of collaborative efforts; the
development and pace of supportive market conditions and policies
including support for waste collection and sorting and advanced
recycling; changes in laws and regulations including environmental
laws and taxes; changes in plans or objectives prior to final
funding decisions or project startups; unforeseen technical or
operational difficulties; changes in supply and demand and other
market factors affecting future prices of oil, gas, and
petrochemical products; and other factors discussed in this release
and under the heading “Factors Affecting Future Results” on the
Investors page of ExxonMobil’s website at exxonmobil.com.
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