Welcome to our series aimed at spotlighting the NLCRC members and partners.

Discover how these companies are addressing pressing challenges around environmental sustainability issues, such as energy, greenhouse gas emission reduction, packaging, product recyclability, and what inspires each of them to include lubricant packaging recovery and recycling into their ESG objectives and how they hope to make an impact in the lubricant value chain.

Company Name: Nexus Circular  
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Nexus Circular is an advanced recycling company at the center of the circular economy. Nexus accelerates plastic recycling through a commercial, economical and scalable process so that people, economies, and the environment can thrive.  

Using its end-to-end solution, Nexus works with sustainability-minded companies and recycling organizations across the plastics value chain to secure used plastics, especially hard-to-recycle films, having diverted millions of pounds to date from landfill.  Nexus then combines proprietary technology with a leading energy-efficient process design to convert used plastics into clean high-quality, ISCC Plus certified circular liquid products for global companies who use them to produce virgin-quality plastics, which achieve their recycled content goals by displacing fossil-based materials. 

With technology that outperforms, operations that scale and a team that delivers, Nexus is on a trajectory to convert billions of pounds of hard-to-recycle plastics into circular products to support their global partners’ 2025-2030 sustainability commitments. 

Nexus Circular.  Advanced Recycling. Accelerated. 

Learn more about Nexus Circular. 

What are your long-term sustainability goals, and how do they relate to lubricant packaging? 

Nexus provides a comprehensive, circular solution to the growing waste plastics challenge through our proven process and fully commercial production facility in Atlanta, Georgia.  Nexus has established a breakthrough pyrolysis-based advanced recycling technology combined with a leading energy-efficient process design to convert landfill-bound plastics into the highest quality, ISCC Plus certified circular liquid feedstocks that are then used by our strategic offtake partners (Braskem, Chevron Phillips Chemical, LyondellBasell, Shell and others) to produce sustainable virgin-quality plastics, replacing fossil-based naphtha in plastic production.

To date, Nexus has diverted over 8 million pounds of used polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene plastics from landfill.  We are on a trajectory to convert billions of pounds of hard-to-recycle plastics into circular products to support their global partners’ 2025-2030 sustainability commitments.

Nexus has worked with the NLCRC on the Atlanta pilot program in 2021-2023 to validate the technical feasibility of the program.  We are closely collaborating with the NLCRC to establish long-term commercially scaled solutions for the post-consumer recycling of used plastic lubricant containers.   Nexus also provides technical expertise on advanced recycling and an infinitely circular recycling solution for used plastic lubricant containers which abates the landfill disposal of these contaminated oil bottles.   

How does your NLCRC membership help your company to meet your sustainability goals and commitments?

The mission of Nexus is to accelerate plastic recycling so that people, economies and the environment can thrive through a comprehensive, circular solution to the growing waste plastics challenge. To accomplish this, Nexus has partnered with like-minded world-leading companies who are investing in new technology and innovative solutions to build a sustainable world and to reduce the accumulation of plastics in our environment.  In addition, our used plastic feedstock partnerships enable companies to meet their waste reduction and zero-waste-to-landfill goals which represent a win-win-win for Nexus, our supply partners and the environment.  All of these actions underscore our commitment to divert from landfill and then convert billions of pounds of hard-to-recycle plastics into circular products to support our global partners’ 2025-2030 sustainability commitments.  

Our NLCRC membership supports our mission and our sustainability commitments to return the plastic molecule to productive use, diverting a hard-to-recycle plastic from landfill and preventing leakage to the environment.

What do you value most about the collaborative nature and your membership with NLCRC?"

The NLCRC is an industry-led collaborative whose members represent companies that are committed to changing the trajectory of plastics in the environment.  That commitment of all NLCRC members is having a flywheel effect that brings collaboration across the plastics value chain to create innovative, new recycling technologies and incentivizes additional investment in recycling infrastructure and the overall ecosystem. 

About NLCRC 

The National Lubricant Container Recycling Coalition or “NLCRC” is an industry-led technical coalition established by a committed group of industry leaders in lubricant and associated plastic packaging manufacturing, focused on establishing solutions for post-consumer recovery and recycling of plastic lubricant containers.

NLCRC members include Berry Global, Castrol, Chevron, CKS Packaging Inc., Graham Packaging, Nexus Circular, Pennzoil - Quaker State Company, Petroleum Packaging Council, Plastipak Packaging,  Safety-Kleen, and Valvoline.

For more information, visit https://www.nationallcrc.com or connect with NLCRC on LinkedIn and Twitter.