Advanced Recycling Policy

Today's waste. Tomorrow's resource.

Plastics – they make modern life possible. But plastic waste is still a challenge. With rapidly scalable, affordable technologies, we can do better.

That's where advanced recycling can help.

Advanced recycling breaks down plastics to recover their valuable molecules that can be reused to make new products. But we need better policy to help to realize its potential. Smart policy can keep more plastics out of landfills, scale up recycling capacity, and unlock investment in U.S. manufacturing.

ExxonMobil has the resources and know-how to recycle more plastics at an industrial scale. Let's modernize the rules to keep plastic in the economy and out of landfills and incinerators.

Because with full-scale advanced recycling, today's waste can be tomorrow's resource.

From waste to worth: how we’re using advanced recycling to help address plastic waste

  • Progress through policy: why society needs modernized recycling rules

    How advanced recycling transforms plastics into valuable resources—and why smart policy is essential to scale these innovations.

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  • Baytown becoming one of the largest advanced recycling operations in the world

    Our third advanced recycling unit at Baytown is now operational, increasing capacity to process up to ~250 million pounds of plastic waste annually.

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  • New research shows how popular plastic packaging compares to alternative materials

    We commissioned two peer-reviewed studies known as Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) that examine the potential environmental impacts of the most common form of plastic packaging, polyethylene (PE).

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    Our advanced recycling operations in Baytown

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