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ExxonMobil's Second Advanced Recycling Unit is Up and Running in Baytown

ExxonMobil | June 26, 2025

Doubling down on double capacity: our second advanced recycling unit is up and running in Baytown!

ExxonMobil | June 26, 2025

• Our second advanced recycling unit is now operational in Baytown, Texas.
• The new unit doubles our advanced recycling capacity, and we've processed more than 100 million pounds of plastic waste in Baytown as of May 2025.
• Additional advanced recycling investments are under consideration for North America, Europe, and Asia.

We’re invested in advanced recycling.

Why? Because it’s a good investment for our customers, our shareholders, and the communities where we operate. By embedding these units within our pre-existing facilities, we can scale up faster and at a much lower cost than most of industry, and we can help increase recycling rates in nearby cities and towns.

We’ve expanded our Baytown operations with a second advanced recycling unit. Combined with our first unit, which has been in operation since late 2022, we have processed more than 100 million pounds of plastic as of May 2025.

We’re ready for this expanded capacity - we’ve learned from the first unit what works well and what to do better. These lessons have been applied to the second unit and improvements will continue with each new unit.

These units are sound investments - and they're part of how we're helping to address plastic waste.

Advanced recycling transforms used plastic into raw materials for valuable products. Through our existing facilities, we can convert nearly 90% of used plastic into useful raw materials. This helps keep plastic out of landfills and incinerators and can help our customers meet their goals around plastic waste.

To increase recycling rates, one of the big challenges around the world is collecting and sorting plastic waste. That’s why we’re working with communities, customers, and other companies to collect plastic waste for our recycling units.

We helped form the joint venture Cyclyx International LLC to help collect and sort a wide variety of plastic waste, and helped found the Houston Recycling Collaboration to expand the collection of residential plastic waste. Other local communities have indicated interest in similar programs, and we’re eager to expand this collaborative effort.

We’re not stopping at Baytown. We’ve also announced additional investments, including a third and fourth Baytown unit and our first unit in Beaumont, Texas. This will increase our overall capacity to approximately 500 million pounds of plastic waste per year.

Additional advanced recycling investments are under consideration for North America, Europe, and Asia.