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Sustainable packaging

Petrochemicals

Sustainable packaging

Sustainable packaging with Styropor® over the entire lifecycle

Raw material

Packaging material along the use phase 

Recycling

Responsibility along the supply chain: a global code of conduct for suppliers

  • Compliance with human rights and occupational and social standards.
  • Anti-discrimination and anti-corruption requirements.
  • Environmental protection.
  • BASF is a founding member of the  „Together for Sustainability“ (TfS)

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Sustainability through the Verbund

  • Production
    The Production Verbund ensures a competitive supply of key products to all segments with value-added chains rooted in the Verbund.
       
  • Technology
    The Technology Verbund leverages technological advantages across all segments by breadth, impact, and best in class expertise (e.g. biotech sciences, catalysis, formulation platform).
       
  • Market
    The Market Verbund creates customer relevance by size and with a broad portfolio, for example automotive/ transportation.
      
  • Digital
    The Digital Verbund systematically uses and harvests the huge advantages and potential offered by digitalisation throughout the BASF network (data management, scale, artificial intelligence).
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The mass balance approach

Biomass balance approach (BMB)

With the biomass balance approach (BMB) certified by REDcert, fossil raw materials required to produce EPS (expandable polystyrene) can be replaced by renewable ones. 

Further information on the BMB approach

ChemCycling®

BASF's ChemCycling® project aims to manufacture products from chemically recycled plastic waste on an industrial scale in the future.

Here you can see which  ChemCycling® projects have already been implemented together with our customers. 

General information on ChemCycling® can be found  here.

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