Proponents suggest, at Company discretion, the analysis include:
| • | Quantification (in tons and/or as a percentage of total production) of the Company’s polymer production for SUP markets; |
| • | Development of a substantive time-bound recycled polymer goal as a share of virgin polymer production; |
| • | Plans to ensure that shifting from virgin to recycled plastics will utilize recycling technologies that are cost-effective, process and energy efficient, and environmentally sound; |
| • | An assessment of the resilience of the Company’s portfolio of petrochemical assets under virgin to recycled transition scenarios of five and ten years, and the financial risks and benefits associated with such scenarios; and |
| • | The benefits of such a shift in terms of plastic pollution avoided. |
| 1 | https://wwfint.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/wwf_pctsee_report_english.pdf, p. 15. |
| 2 | https://www.unep.org/resources/pollution-solution-global-assessment-marine-litter-and-plastic-pollution. |
| 3 | https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32019L0904&from=EN#page=8; https://www.minderoo.org/plastic-waste-makers-index/findings/executive-summary/. |
| 4 | https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/plastic-trash-in-seas-will-nearly-triple-by-2040-if-nothing-done. |
| 5 | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/01/call-for-global-treaty-to-end-production-of-virgin-plastic-by-2040 |
| 6 | https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2020/07/breakingtheplasticwave_report.pdf; https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aba9475. |
| 7 | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/bold-single-use-plastic-ban-kicks-europes-plastic-purge-into-high-gear; https://www.businessforplasticstreaty.org/. |
| 8 | https://www.minderoo.org/plastic-waste-makers-index/. |
