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TotalEnergies joins Polypropylene Recycling Coalition

| By Mary Bailey

TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc., an affiliate of broad energy company TotalEnergies (Paris), announces its participation as a funding partner of the Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, an initiative of The Recycling Partnership. This follows the company’s inauguration of an expansion project for recycled polypropylene in Normandy.

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.

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.