SABIC and BP join forces on circular plastics SABIC and BP are working together to produce recycled plastics at the Gelsenkirchen chemical complex in Germany. The collaboration takes low-quality mixed and used plastic that typically would be incinerated or buried and instead convert it into pyrolysis oil. This replaces a portion of fossil feedstocks that are processed through BP’s refining site and pass through to SABIC’s polymer plants. SABIC says the final material has identical properties to virgin-based polymers and allows plastics to be recycled repeatedly. After trials in December, SABIC began producing polymers using alternative feedstocks earlier this year.