Sustainability

Increasing the circular use of plastics in a low-carbon economy is the next challenge. As a world-class player in the energy transition, TotalEnergies supplies its customers with Iow-carbon solutions for polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene. To meet the climate challenge, we set a formidable ambition to produce 30% circular* polymers by 2030.

This goal is articulated around several dimensions and TotalEnergies’ circular ranges:

*Circular = recycled or renewable

Mechanical recycling

As part of its ambition to produce 30% circular* polymers by 2030, TotalEnergies is developing products obtained through mechanical recycling of PE, PP and PS.

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Advanced recycling

As part of its ambition to produce 30% circular* polymers by 2030, TotalEnergies is at the forefront of the development of advanced recycling through pyrolysis of plastic waste that would otherwise have been landfilled or incinerated.

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Renewable feedstock

TotalEnergies provides customers with polymers made from biofeedstocks based on vegetable oils or waste, and residues from bio origin processed at the La Mède biorefinery (and soon from the Grandpuits biorefinery).

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Besides enabling sustainable sourcing for polymers, TotalEnergies is active to provide high-performing solutions that will ensure the lowest environmental footprint for the final products, and is invested in several initiatives to help end plastic waste in the environment.

Operation Clean Sweep®

Operation Clean Sweep® is a voluntary free programme aimed at improving awareness, promoting best practices and providing guidance and tools to support companies from the plastics value chain in the implementation of necessary pellet loss prevention measures.

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Ecodesign

“Eco-design considers environmental aspects at all stages of the product development process, striving for products which make the lowest possible environmental impact throughout the product life cycle.”

European Environment Agency

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Alliance to End Plastic Waste

TotalEnergies participated in 2019 in the creation of an alliance of global companies from the plastics and consumer goods value chain to advance solutions to help end plastic waste in the environment, especially in the ocean.

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TotalEnergies Ambition Towards Carbon Neutrality

In 2020, TotalEnergies unveiled its transformation strategy to become a multi-energy company, as well as its ambition to become a major player in the energy transition, committed to getting to net zero by 2050.

TotalEnergies has set a goal of achieving carbon neutrality together with society by 2050 for all of our global operations, from production to the use by our customers of the energy products we sell (scopes 1, 2 and 3).

Our Company is taking action in three areas:

Achieving carbon neutrality for global operations, by 2050 or earlier (scopes 1 and 2);
Achieving carbon neutrality worldwide for all indirect emissions from the use by our customers of energy products sold to them, by 2050 or earlier (scope 3);
Achieving carbon neutrality in Europe, from production to use by our customers of the energy products sold, by 2050 or earlier (scopes 1, 2 and 3).

This ambition, which took shape 2021, already yielded significant progress:

TotalEnergies reduced the share of petroleum products in its sales mix to 44% (from 65% in 2015), lowering the greenhouse gas emissions related to petroleum products used by its customers (Scope 3) by 19%.
TotalEnergies also achieved a 20% decrease in emissions from its operated facilities (Scope 1+2) compared to 2015 and a 14% reduction in the carbon footprint of the products sold in Europe (vs 2015)

For more information, have a look at TotalEnergies Sustainability & Climate 2022 Progress Report