Bio-Based Plastics from Waste Oil and Residues by Neste and LyondellBasell

Finnish renewable diesel producer Neste and chemicals giant LyondellBasell announced last month they have successfully produced bio-based polypropylene and low-density polyethylene at a commercial scale, according to Oil & Fats International.  The firms said it was the first time these materials had been produced in parallel through successfully converting waste oil and residues into several thousand tons of bio-based plastics. The plastics were of a high enough quality to be approved for food packaging.
   
LyondellBasell used Neste’s renewable hydrocarbons to make the materials at its site in Wesseling, Germany, before an independent third party tested the polymer products and confirmed they contained more than 30% renewable content. The chemicals giant had already sold some of the renewable products produced in the trial to multiple food and household product manufacturers.