Establishing a circular economy strategy

Dr. Maurits van Tol | SVP Innovation & Technology | Borealis AG

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

We are facing a global challenge

By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the

world’s oceans

95% of plastic packaging material value, or $80–120

billion annually, is lost to the economy after its first life

32% of plastic packaging escapes collection systems

Use of plastics has increased twenty-fold in the past

half-century and is expected to double again in the

next 20 years

According to the World Economic Forum Report:

The New Plastics Economy – Rethinking the

future of plastics published in January 2016:

The core of this problem: the value of plastics

is not recognised after its first use.

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

We are facing a global challenge

The opportunity

A focus on Circular economy could

deliver considerable economic

value for the industry

The imperative

Plastic waste is the Achilles

heel of the plastics industry

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

We are facing a global challenge

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Two recycling

companies with total

70 kt output, mainly post-

consumer recycling

Project STOP is advancing

waste management and

stopping plastic leakage

in South-East Asia

Active advocacy work to

promote a circular economy

Virgin PO solutions

following principles of Design

for Recyclability (DfR)

Compounds with

virgin + recycled contents

Borealis is working towards a more circular polyolefins industry on many fronts

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

People Profit

Planet

Why do we want to

enter into recycling?We must manage the planet’s limited

resources as well as increasing demand.

How will we realize

this vision?We foster convergence across

our entities and functions. We are

strong advocates for the circular

economy within our industry.

What is Borealis’

strategic intention?We see clear business

growth opportunity in circular

economy. Plastics are too

valuable to be thrown away.

Our vision is to establish plastic waste as just another standard feedstock in a circular PO industry

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Borealis is pioneering collaboration between a virgin producer and plastics recyclers

– Mixed polyolefins (MPO) as feedstock

– Dipolen®: commodity polyolefin blend for injection moulding industry

– Purpolen®: premium HDPE and PP regranulates in different colours for injection moulding and extrusion

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Borealis is pioneering collaboration between a virgin producer and plastics recyclers

– Mixed polyolefins (MPO) as feedstock

– Dipolen®: commodity polyolefin blend for injection moulding industry

– Purpolen®: premium HDPE and PP regranulates in different colours for injection moulding and extrusion

– Mono PE film fractions as feedstock

– LDPE recyclates: re-pellets for various film packaging applications

– HDPE recyclates: re-pellets for bottles, canisters, bottle crates and piping

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Plastic packaging recycling begins with design

Delivering Opening Shopping

Design for reuse means designing a product to be durable and multi-purpose beyond a single use

before being recycled into a second life post-consumer

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Plastic packaging recycling begins with design

Design for recycling means designing a product so it can be collected, sorted, and recycled, by

making appropriate material choices and intelligent design decisions

Daploy HMS PP to replace difficult-to-

recycle existing cup solutions

100% recyclable HMS PP foam developed

for food service (cups), automotive, and

construction

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Plastic packaging recycling begins with design

Design for recycling means designing a product so it can be collected, sorted, and recycled, by

making appropriate material choices and intelligent design decisions

Full PE laminate to replace non-

recyclable multilayer packaging

100% recyclable full PE stand-up

pouch, developed in cooperation

with various value chain partners

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

The unique Borealis technology platforms enable a broad variety of Circular Economy solutions

BorceedTM

Plastomers and

Elastomers

BorlinkTM

Wire & Cable

Technology

Platform

Borealis SIRIUS

Catalyst Technology

Borstar® PE

Bimodal LLD,

MD & HDPE

Borstar® PP

Multimodal PP

Polyolefin Technologies

Enabling:

– Design for recycling and re-use

– Substitution of less recycling friendly materials

– Compensate for performance deficiencies of recyclate based applications

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Borlink™ solutions

enabling innovation to

secure the enhanced

use of renewable

energy

Fibremod™ solutions

enabling lightweighting in

automotive design

Bormed™ soft polypropylene

for healthcare applications

enables faster sterilisation

Borstar® Nucleation

Technology PP enables

reduced cycle time and

energy savings in moulding

Quentys™ solutions for

solar empowering a more

sustainable future

Plastics allow for increased sustainability across a variety of applications

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Responsible Care® Plastics Value Chain Industry symbiosis

The Responsible Care® Global

Charter is the global chemicals industry’s

umbrella fostering sustainability

advancement along the value chain.

We must collaborate along the entire value chain to make true change happen

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Plastics Value Chain Responsible Care® Industry symbiosis

Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS) is an

international programme to prevent the

loss of plastic granules (pellets).

We must collaborate along the entire value chain to make true change happen

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Industry symbiosis Responsible Care® Plastics Value Chain

Local and regional initiatives to

identify, assess and generate synergies

along the value chain, and find the best

partners for collaboration

We must collaborate along the entire value chain to make true change happen

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Borealis was the first PO company that joined the Ellen MacArthur

Foundation’s New Plastics Economy (NPEC) programme

Borealis is founding member and chair of the

Polyolefins Circular Economy Platform (PCEP)

Borealis is an active member of the new CEFLEX

project, successor to the former FIACE and REFLEX

Borealis is an active member of the Round Table Eco Design of Plastic

Packaging, launched by the German Industrial Association for Plastic Packaging

Borealis is a driving force behind advocacy and value chain initiatives

Borealis received the “Gold CSR” status awarded by EcoVadis,

an international provider of business sustainability ratings, performing

among the top one percent of all suppliers assessed in 2018.

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

Project objective:

Partner with city/district governments to enable three goals:

– Zero leakage of plastics into the ocean

– Increasing plastics recycling rates

– Social benefits – health, fisheries, tourism, job creation

Muncar port photographed by study team, August 2017. Indonesia is one of the five Asian countries that account for more than 55% of the plastics waste in the ocean.

Project STOP: City partnerships for zero leakage circular waste management

Founding Partners: Strategic Partners:

Supporting Partner Technical Partners

Innovative Plastic Designs: Sustainability for Future Generations

There is a lack of appreciation for the value of plastics in our society and this needs to change. Plastics are part of the solution for a more sustainable society

There is a paradigm shift in plastics perception – this needs to change, and we as key players need to drive this change and build a new future for plastics based on their merits.

We also need to help develop solutions that prevent leakage of plastics, and to develop a new lives for used plastics: a valuable raw material!

We all need to change our behaviour and our approach – as consumers, value chain members and as raw material suppliers

Our call to action: show the world the value of

plastics in the first life, second life and beyond

So what is our call to action as industry players?

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