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France’s first advanced chemical recycling plant opens, to criticism from NGOs

Plastic waste from French households will be recycled using chemical processes at TotalEnergies' Grandpuits-Gargenville plant. AFP - GUILLAUME BAPTISTE

TotalEnergies' new plastics recycling plant has come under fire from environmental activists, who claim the chemicals it uses will create more greenhouse gases than conventional recycling methods.

French oil giant TotalEnergies opened the recycling plant at its Grandpuits site, 80km south-east of Paris, on Thursday.

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