Circularity and Ending Plastic Waste

Plastics have an integral role in enabling a more sustainable future, but mismanagement of these materials and a lack of systems supporting end-of-life options has created environmental consequences for our oceans and natural habitats. We work to harness the benefits of plastics for more than eight billion people who share our planet today and we innovate to minimize our footprint for the billions we will share it with tomorrow.

CPChem is helping transform how we make, use and reuse plastics. With emerging recycling technologies and infrastructure, companies like CPChem can use feedstocks made from advanced recycling to produce new polyethylene resins and other useful products. Advanced recycling (also called chemical recycling) technologies convert hard-to-recycle plastics into new raw materials. Because advanced recycled polymers have physical properties equivalent to their fossil-based counterparts, they may be selected for use in highly regulated applications not suitable for mechanically recycled polymers.

Introduced commercially in 2022, Marlex® Anew™ Circular Polyethylene is CPChem’s first circular product. Marlex® Anew™ is made using advanced recycling, converting waste plastics into raw materials to make new polyethylene resins that provide the same performance and quality as conventional polymers.