 The road to carbon neutral, presented by Tatao Energies. How can plastic be part of a sustainable future? This lightweight and resistant material is easy and economical to produce and is used across almost every sector and is essential in our daily lives. I would say now that we are talking about what will happen in the energy transition, the use of plastic will be even more important because many of the devices or technologies useful for the energy transition will need to use plastics. Where we of course see the challenge for plastics is that plastics need to be managed at the end of their life to enter into a kind of circularity and that's where of course we are talking about recycling. We produce approximately 300 million tonnes of plastic each year worldwide and only 9% of global plastic production is actually recycled. We cannot afford that it's just incinerated or landfill so our task is to create a circular economy for plastics. We have seen from other industries that it's possible so when you look in the steel industry or glass industry they have a kind of circular economy already since decades so now it's up to the plastics industry to create the same. Not all plastics can be recycled at the same time and need to be sorted. Some products are made of different types of plastics often glued together with other materials such as paper or metal. Recycling plastics requires expertise in several different fields along the entire value chain including eco design, recovery, sorting and technical recycling solutions, markets and regulations. Part of our endeavor from Total Energies was to be one of the founding members of the Alliance 10 Plastic Waste which is a coalition focused on helping to develop new technologies that capture a waste before they pollute streams into the ocean, those type of things. Of the 70 companies across the chain essentially of $1.5 billion budget to be spent over the next five years or over a five year period before renewal. By working hand in hand with the whole plastic value chain we must create a framework to boost the circular economy for plastics and develop a collective blueprint to accelerate our transformation to a more sustainable future. Myth, plastic recycling is a relatively new process. In fact, the first recycling plant appeared in Pennsylvania in 1972. The now globally recognized green triangle was first created to help consumers identify recyclable plastic products and went on to become a universal symbol of recycling used around the world. Innovators and industry leaders across the globe are continuing to develop new and improved processes to make recycling easier, less expensive and more effective. There are two main ways to recycle plastic. Mechanical recycling where plastic is washed, ground and melted and chemical recycling where plastic is broken down into small molecules used to manufacture virgin-like plastics. Total Energies is constructing one of France's first chemical recycling plants in Grand Prix. The Grand Prix transformation project is essentially turning the former crude or refinery into a zero crude platform multi-energy and low-carbon platform. First, there's a 15,000 tonne per year plastic waste recycling plant and we will do that with our partner plastic energy. Plastic energy is a focus in advanced recycling of difficult to recycle plastics. What we do is to heat the plastics in the absence of oxygen. By doing this we can convert those difficult to recycle plastics into virgin food grade plastics. Whilst more effective recycling is critical producing plastics without the need for fossil fuels has a huge impact on the sustainability of plastics. Bioplastics are derived from renewable biomass sources such as agriculture and food waste. Biolive is a Turkish company creating plastics from olive seeds. At first, we collect olive industry waste. We produce compounds to be used as a raw material in manufacturing biobased products. And we also adopt our production process according to sustainable production principles. So we made our production sustainable as well as products. Total Energies has formed a joint venture with Corbian to produce PLA, a bioplastic that is biobased, recyclable and compostable. We have built a first plant in Thailand. It started in 2018 and given the success we have decided to announce the construction of a second plant which will be the first plant of PLA in Europe and this plant will be constructed in Grand Puy close to Paris. The capacity of this plant will be 100,000 tons and when this plant will be on stream Total Energies Corbion will be one of the biggest players in the PLA market in the world. A market that grows annually by 15%. Cutting-edge technology is enhancing the plastic recycling process such as artificial intelligence to automate sorting and blockchain to accurately track recycled materials. Recycling is using advanced machine learning, computer vision and automation to revolutionise waste sorting using a leading-edge AI computer vision to scan and identify mixed waste materials. The recycler robot then picks and sorts the waste and is capable of successfully delivering up to 33,000 items for recycling in a 10-hour shift. US-based Clean Robotics has developed TrashBot to solve the issues of putting waste in the wrong recycling bin. This clever robot identifies the type of object placed in it using sensors and machine learning, which it then sorts into the correct recycling bin. The development and use of new materials are also helping to improve the life cycle of plastics. Total Energies partnered with Lanzatec and with L'Oreal to create an innovative packaging solution. So Lanzatec captured the carbon offtake emissions from a steelworks facility and converted it over into ethanol. Total Energies then converted over into ethylene, which is the feedstock for polyethylene, which L'Oreal then built an innovative packaging solution to be introduced to the public. Scientists at the University of Texas have been using AI to develop a new enzyme that can completely break down waste plastic in less than 24 hours. A couple years ago, a group in Japan isolated an organism that can actually grow in small parts of water bottles and that really kicked off the discovery to identify that this function was due to an enzyme that actually can take PET and begin to break it down back to the starting elements essentially that make it up. We then use machine learning type of approaches to greatly improve the overall activity of this enzyme, which then can enable us to build it back up to the virgin quality PET or to be able to ultimately use that as a feedstock for other types of chemicals. Plastics are an integral part of our daily lives, but their end of life poses an environmental, societal and industrial dilemma. Therefore, moving towards a circular economy with improved production and recycling will be vital for plastics to be part of a sustainable future. To find out more, visit roadstocarboneutral.com