REG-TOTAL LanzaTech, Total and L’Oréal Announce a Worldwide Premiere: the Production of the First Cosmetic Plastic Bottle Made From Industrial Carbon Emissions

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27/10/2020 07:35

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LanzaTech, Total and L’Oréal Announce a Worldwide Premiere: the Production
of the First Cosmetic Plastic Bottle Made From Industrial Carbon Emissions

 

Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT):

Through their innovative partnership, LanzaTech, Total and L’Oréal have
premiered the world’s first sustainable packaging made from captured and
recycled carbon emissions. The successful conversion process takes place in
three steps:


 * LanzaTech captures industrial carbon emissions and converts them into ethanol
using a unique biological process.

 * Total, thanks to an innovative dehydration process jointly developed with IFP
Axens, converts the ethanol into ethylene before polymerizing it into
polyethylene that has the same technical characteristics as its fossil
counterpart.

 * L’Oréal uses this polyethylene to produce packaging with the same quality
and properties as conventional polyethylene.

It is a technological and industrial success proving that industrial carbon
emissions can be used to produce plastic packaging. This world first
demonstrates the commitment of the three partners to the development of a
sustainable circular economy for plastics and paves the way for new
opportunities for the capture and re-use of industrial carbon emissions.

The partners now intend to continue working together on scaling the production
of these sustainable plastics and look forward to working with all those who
want to join them in committing to the use of these new sustainable plastics.

LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren said: “This partnership is based on a shared
goal of creating a cleaner planet for everyone. We are grateful to both
L’Oréal and Total for their commitment to reducing the carbon intensity of
their activities. Together, we can reduce the carbon footprint of packaging by
converting carbon emissions into useful products, making single-use carbon a
thing of the past.”

Senior Vice President Polymers, Total, Valérie Goff announced: "This
partnership is an excellent example of collaboration between industrial firms
in developing the plastics of the future produced from recycled carbon and
meets a strong demand from our customers. The development of this new pathway
of valuing industrial carbon emissions also contributes to the Group's
commitment to get to net zero in Europe by 2050”.

Jacques Playe L’Oréal Packaging & Development Director, L’Oréal,
said that “L’Oréal is constantly improving the environmental footprint of
its packaging. With this innovation converting carbon emissions into
polyethylene, we aim to develop new sustainable packaging solution. We have
the ambition to use this sustainable material in our bottle of shampoo and
conditioner by 2024 and we hope other companies will join us in using this
breakthrough innovation.”

About LanzaTech

Carbon recycling company, LanzaTech is a global leader in gas fermentation,
making sustainable fuels and chemicals via biological conversion of waste
carbon emissions, including industrial off-gases; syngas generated from any
biomass resource (e.g. municipal solid waste), organic industrial waste,
agricultural waste); and reformed biogas. LanzaTech’s expertise in
fermentation scale up, reactor design, machine learning and synthetic biology
has enabled the company to commercialize its recycling process and demonstrate
production of over 100 different chemicals. With global investors and
partners, LanzaTech has a pipeline of commercial projects around the world and
is working across the supply chain to provide novel circular solutions to
mitigate carbon by producing consumer goods that would otherwise come from
fresh fossil resources.

Founded in New Zealand, LanzaTech is based in Illinois, USA and employs more
than 170 people, with locations in China, India and Europe.

Further information is available at www.lanzatech.com
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About Total

Total is a broad energy company that produces and markets fuels, natural gas
and electricity. Our 100,000 employees are committed to better energy that is
more affordable, more reliable, cleaner and accessible to as many people as
possible. Active in more than 130 countries, our ambition is to become the
responsible energy major.

About L'Oréal

L’Oréal has devoted itself to beauty for over 100 years. With its unique
international portfolio of 36 diverse and complementary brands, the Group
generated sales amounting to 29.87 billion euros in 2019 and employs 88,000
people worldwide. As the world’s leading beauty company, L’Oréal is
present across all distribution networks: mass market, department stores,
pharmacies and drugstores, hair salons, travel retail, branded retail and
e-commerce.

Research and innovation, and a dedicated research team of 4,100 people, are at
the core of L’Oréal’s strategy, working to meet beauty aspirations all
over the world. L’Oréal sets out ambitious sustainable development goals
across the Group for 2030 and aims to empower its ecosystem for a more
inclusive and sustainable society.

More information: https://mediaroom.loreal.com/
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LanzaTech: 

Media Relations: Freya Burton +1 (630) 347 8054 freya@lanzatech.com
(mailto:freya@lanzatech.com)

Total 

Media Relations: +33 1 47 44 46 99 l presse@total.com
(mailto:presse@total.com) l @TotalPress

Investor Relations: +44 (0)207 719 7962 l ir@total.com (mailto:ir@total.com)

L’Oréal: 

Media Relations: Polina HUARD - +33 (0)1 47 56 87 88 - polina.huard@loreal.com
(mailto:polina.huard@loreal.com)



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