# INEOS > INEOS describes circular feedstocks in commercial terms: recycled and biogenic inputs must work inside a competitive industrial process. That is the correct decision frame, but it is still too broad to qualify a product. The useful unit is one polymer grade with a defined feedstock, chain-of-custody method, specification, customer application and economics that can be checked in the same record. - Industry: Chemicals & Advanced Materials - Collection: Active - Materials: Plastics - Processes: Recycling - Evidence through: 2026-09-18 - Canonical URL: https://www.materialtransition.com/library/ineos ## Material inputs to resolve Polymers, intermediates and circular products across energy-intensive industrial value chains INEOS's 2025 sustainability materials describe work across polymers, intermediates, fuels, packaging materials and chemical precursors, including cleaner power, energy efficiency, recycled and biogenic feedstocks and circular products. INEOS distinguishes its sustainability report from its assured non-financial disclosure report. Public reporting does not establish one product-level material ledger connecting feedstock, formulation, performance, customer qualification and end of life. **2025** Sustainability and non-financial disclosure reports published **30+ grades** More than 30 products with over 50% mechanically recycled content in 2024 reporting **Up to 70%** Recycled content in selected mechanically recycled product ranges **Commercial viability** Explicit operating principle in current sustainability strategy - Naphtha, olefins, recycled plastics, bio-based feedstocks, additives, catalysts and energy - Polymerization, compounding, conversion, packaging and supplier chain-of-custody records - Post-consumer and post-industrial plastics entering mechanical or chemical recycling ### Outputs and residuals to resolve - Polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, PVC, ABS and chemical intermediates - Process waste, packaging, customer scrap and post-use plastic streams - Product-level recycled allocation, quality and end-of-life evidence remain open **First decision:** Choose one INEOS polymer grade and one customer application. Compare incumbent and circular feedstocks across performance, cost, allocation, compliance and recovery. ## Operating frame INEOS describes recycled and biogenic feedstocks as part of maintaining a competitive industrial business while developing circular products. #### Product signal INEOS reporting describes more than 30 product grades with over 50% mechanically recycled content in its 2024 disclosure. #### Feedstock signal Current reporting describes recycled and biogenic feedstocks and new circular products. #### Evidence boundary Illustrative product cases do not establish one customer-level chain of custody and qualification record. ### Decision boundary The public record supports one bounded next move: Choose one INEOS polymer grade and one customer application. Compare incumbent and circular feedstocks across performance, cost, allocation, compliance and recovery. It does not establish a buyer, commercial approval or supply agreement. ## Material flow map | Material or stream | Qualification gate | Process or destination | Evidence still needed | |-|-|-|-| | Virgin, recycled and biogenic feedstocks | Origin, purity, allocation and supply security | Polymer or intermediate production | Feedstock record, lot and mass balance | | Polymer and additive inputs | Composition, performance, restricted substances and processing | Compounding or conversion | BOM, test and customer specification | | Post-use plastics | Sorting, contamination, recovery route and yield | Mechanical or chemical recycling | Market, route, output quality and buyer | This is a public screening map. It separates company-disclosed flows from open qualification work. It does not convert a destination into a buyer or an announced ambition into operating capacity. ## Three defensible entry lanes #### Put commercial viability into the substitution record The right alternative must survive price, performance, supply and customer qualification at the same time. **Next evidence:** Compare material, spec, cost, supply, test plan and recovery route. #### Make recycled grades buyer-ready A circular grade needs evidence that travels with the product from input through application. **Next evidence:** Join feedstock, allocation, lot, grade, certificate, customer and claim. #### Connect polymer design to end of life A product designed for recycling still needs the market and process that can actually recover it. **Next evidence:** Select polymer, format, market, collection route, recycler and output. ## Evidence register - **Sustainability** INEOS, official sustainability hub https://www.ineos.com/sustainability/ [1] - **2025 reports** INEOS, official report library https://www.ineos.com/sustainability/our-reports/ [2] - **2024 Sustainability Report** INEOS, official report PDF https://www.ineos.com/globalassets/sustainability/ineos-sustainability-report-2024.pdf [3] Source hierarchy: filings and company disclosures first. The brief states what those sources support and leaves the unresolved plant, grade, permit, buyer and mass-balance questions explicit. ## Material Transition editorial interpretation INEOS is explicit about the commercial test: sustainability has to work inside a competitive industrial business. Its 2025 materials describe cleaner power, recycled and biogenic feedstocks and new circular products. The useful next step is one polymer grade where feedstock, performance, chain of custody and customer application can be compared without hiding the economics. The next useful working session starts with: Choose one INEOS polymer grade and one customer application. Compare incumbent and circular feedstocks across performance, cost, allocation, compliance and recovery. ## Sources - [1] Sustainability - https://www.ineos.com/sustainability/ - [2] 2025 reports - https://www.ineos.com/sustainability/our-reports/ - [3] 2024 Sustainability Report - https://www.ineos.com/globalassets/sustainability/ineos-sustainability-report-2024.pdf From the Material Transition company brief library: https://www.materialtransition.com/library/ineos