TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy Partner on U.S. Advanced Recycling Project
New Hope Energy will build the plant that will transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock that Total Energies will purchase and convert into virgin-quality polymers.

France’s TotalEnergies and Houston-based have entered into a commercial agreement under which New Hope Energy will build an advanced recycling plant in Texas to transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock. Scheduled for startup in 2025, the New Hope Energy plant will use a patented pyrolysis technology, developed in partnership with , to process and convert more than 683 million lb/yr of mixed plastic waste.
TotalEnergies will use 220 million lb/yr of Recycled Polymer Feedstock (RPF) in its Texas-based production units to manufacture high-quality polyolefins suitable for food-grade applications such as flexible and rigid food packaging containers. The Lummus New Hope technology is part of a partnership formed in 2020 between New Hope Energy and Lummus, the technology combines Lummus’ strength to license, scale-up and further develop process technology with New Hope Energy operational experience and waste conversion technology.
Said TotalEnergies senior v.p. Valérie Goff,“We are pleased to partner with New Hope Energy, which offers a promising technology and the ability to scale. This new project is another concrete and significant step TotalEnergies is taking to address the challenge of plastic recycling and meet our goal of producing 30% circular polymers by 2030.”
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