L’Oréal, LanzaTech and Total, through a collaboration that sees technology and sustainability as protagonists, presented the first packaging made of plastic obtained from carbon emissions produced by industry, captured and recycled.
The process of converting carbon emissions into a circular material with the same technical properties as the raw material, involves the three partners in three different phases. Lanzatech has developed a biological process to capture industrial carbon emissions and then convert them into ethanol.
Total in partnership with IFP Axens, has developed an innovative dehydration process to convert ethanol into ethylene, which is then polymerized to obtain polyethylene.
L’Oréal uses polyethylene, obtained from this virtuous recycling process, to produce packaging for its cosmetics and personal care products.
L’Oréal, LanzaTech and Total make packaging using industrial carbon emissions
Category
End of Life
Europe - France