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Statement from AFPM President and CEO Chet Thompson in response to the Beyond Petrochemicals: People Over Pollution campaign

September 27, 2022

The U.S. petrochemical industry has a crucial and enduring role to play in meeting the needs of a growing world population while simultaneously fulfilling the imperative to produce petrochemicals in a sustainable and clean manner.

Petrochemicals and Our Military

August 15, 2016

Petrochemicals derived from oil and natural gas are the building blocks for products that protect our military personnel, create medical advancements to help save lives in combat, and aid our wounded warriors.

Reintroduced “Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act” falls short, would penalize American manufacturing

October 26, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rob Benedict, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) Vice President of Petrochemicals & Midstream, today released the following statement on the recently reintroduced Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act.

Plastic waste can be eliminated without banning plastic production

November 14, 2023

As AFPM participates in the United Nations negotiations of a global agreement on plastic pollution in Kenya, the association released the following statement addressing criticisms of recycling and calls for production restrictions on polymers.

EPA draft strategy to prevent plastic pollution needs revision

August 4, 2023

AFPM welcomes the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) efforts in developing a Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution, but consistent with comments submitted to the Agency, we urge a revision of their strategy. To prevent plastic pollution, we encourage EPA to embrace policies that enable, not hinder, a circular economy for plastics where we use a range of technologies and strategies to recover post-consumer plastic and transform it back into usable materials.

Tackling the problem of plastic waste: Ron Abbott, Ph.D.

July 20, 2023

AFPM sat down with Dr. Ron Abbott, Ph.D., the Sustainability Technology Manager at Chevron Phillips Chemical. A 31-year veteran of the company and holder of 26 patents, Dr. Abbott is responsible for technical programs that advance long-term global sustainability objectives, like advanced recycling. Dr. Abbott was recently featured in AFPM’s recent “Recycling Reimagined” video.

Firefighting Foam

Emergency Response

Moderator: Dave Dolnick, Phillips 66
Speakers:
John Gross, Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Niall Ramsden, LASTFIRE

Speakers

David Dolnick

John Gross

Niall Ramsden

Session Start End

Wed, 05/15/2024 - 13:30 - Wed, 05/15/2024 - 15:00

Topic

Emergency Response

AFPM, ACC and PLASTICS joint statement: GSA finalizes rule on single-use plastic packaging in federal procurement

June 10, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) released the following statement on the General Services Administration’s (GSA) final rule calling for the reduction of single-use plastic packaging on federally supplied or purchased products.

Petrochemical makers are innovating to enable more plastics recycling

March 5, 2019

As petrochemicals and recycling advancements give old plastic new life over and over again—from shoes and clothes made of recycled plastic recovered from the ocean, to plastic bottles being chemically recycled into fuel and a raw material to make new petrochemicals—what it means to “recycle” is changing right before our eyes.

Top Takes From AFPM’s International Petrochemical Conference 2019

April 1, 2019

Plastic roads and buildings, the influence of energy and petrochemicals in geopolitics, and chemical and molecular recycling processes that could create a truly circular economy for plastic products were just a few of the topics discussed at AFPM’s 44th International Petrochemical Conference (IPC) in San Antonio last week.