Waste prevention and management at Total

Total is focused on controlling the waste produced on all of the operated sites, at every stage in their operations.

This approach is based on the following four principles, listed in decreasing order of priority: reducing waste at source by designing products and processes that generate as little waste as possible, as well as minimizing the quantity of waste produced by the Group’s operations;

reusing products for a similar purpose in order to prevent them from becoming waste; recycling residual waste;

and recovering energy, wherever possible, from non-recycled products.

Total deploys programs on its operated sites to valorize the majority of the Group’s waste. Since 2015, all the Refining & Chemicals segment’s plastic production sites worldwide are participating in the CleanSweep® program, which aims to achieve zero loss of plastic pellets in handling operations. Additionally, Total is a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, created to finance the development of solutions for the reduction and treatment (reuse, recycling and recovery) of used plastics in the environment, particularly in the oceans.

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