(85f) Co-Processing End-of-Life Plastic with Exxonmobil Exxtend™ Technology for Advanced Recycling

Plastics have widespread societal, health, and safety benefits and often lower environmental impacts than alternatives. Plastics are essential to enabling the energy transition and helping to improve quality of life, given their critical use in solar components, agriculture, food packaging, medical equipment and other essential goods.

All solutions are needed to address plastic waste at a meaningful scale. Advanced recycling is a proven, scalable technology to turn plastic waste that might otherwise have gone to landfill or incineration into valuable new products that meet customer demands.

We are successfully running one of the largest advanced recycling facilities in North America at our Baytown, Texas complex, and we have plans to deploy the technology at other facilities around the world.

This presentation will highlight ExxonMobil’s Exxtend™ technology for advanced recycling and share learnings from our end-of-life plastic processing at our Baytown, TX facility. We continue to incorporate and leverage our learnings to help achieve our ambition of having more than 1 billion pounds per year of plastic-waste processing capacity globally by 2027.

Similar to historical petrochemical feed processing, end-of-life plastic presents an opportunity to learn and understand its specific processing characteristics. These characteristics include supply and contaminant variability, translating feed understanding to process behavior, managing contaminant risks, and applying mass balance methodology to attribute raw material inputs to product output. This presentation will explore these areas, providing a perspective that reflects both industry knowledge and ExxonMobil operating experience.