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Total and Polystyvert join forces on the recycling of household post-consumer polystyrene

Brussels/Montreal, May 2, 2018 – Total and Polystyvert today announced the signing of an agreement to work together on the dissolution and purification of household post-consumer polystyrene...

FDA Approval for Total Circular Compounds® Containing Recycled HDPE

Brussels, April 18, 2018 - The US Food and Drug Administration has determined that Total’s secondary recycling process at its Antwerp Belgium site for the production of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Circular Compounds is effective in reducing contaminants from Post-Consumer Recycled HDPE (PCR-HDPE) material to an extent which allows for its use in food packaging...

Leading the Way to Clean and Affordable Polymers

Total’s ambition for 2035 is to be the responsible energy major and Total’s petrochemical activities play a key role in achieving this ambition...

Food certificates: Commission Regulation (EU) No 2018/79 (9th amendment) & No 2018/213 (10th amendment)

South Korea: Hanwha Total Petrochemical Invests to Expand Its Polymer Production

Paris/Seoul, December 11, 2017 – Hanwha Total Petrochemical, a 50/50 joint venture between Hanwha and Total, will invest more than $300 Million to expand its integrated refining & petrochemicals platform located in Daesan, South Korea...

Belgium: Total Completes the Upgrade of Its Largest Refining & Petrochemicals Platform in Europe

The Future of Plastics in the Circular Economy

On October 27, 2017, 20 international business newspapers published stories about 50 business solutions for attenuating climate change and promoting a circular economy...

Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS) Program

Total is engaged in the prevention of pellet loss and is a founding member of Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS), an international program to prevent pellet loss in the environment and to fight marine litter.

Total explores new routes for post-consumer recycled polystyrene in the circular economy world

Brussels, June 14, 2017 - Total has just completed an industrial scale test run demonstrating the feasibility of sustainable incorporation of about 20% of post-consumer recycled polystyrene within virgin polystyrene...