LyondellBasell Chocolate Bayou Employees Improve Outdoor Garden Access for Disabled Students
October 16, 2017
ALVIN, Texas – Oct. 16, 2017 – LyondellBasell’s employees and contractors in Chocolate Bayou, TX and their families spent Saturday, October 14 making gardening a little easier for wheelchair-bound students at Hood-Case Elementary School.
For the company’s 18th Annual Global Care Day, more than 50 volunteers built raised garden beds, giving wheelchair-bound students better access to the school’s plants and vegetables. Volunteers also filled the raised garden beds with soil, constructed a wheelchair accessible path and repaired a solar panel that powers the school’s water well.
“LyondellBasell is proud to extend the tradition of working across the world to impact our communities,” said Greg Gray, LyondellBasell Chocolate Bayou Site Manager. “A key part of our company’s mission is to be a responsible good neighbor in the communities where we operate and we’re very proud to be able to take on an important and meaningful project like this one.”
Workers from the company’s 58 manufacturing sites and offices in 23 countries participate in Global Care Day. Over the past 18 years, LyondellBasell employees and their families have cumulatively donated more than 40,000 volunteer hours on Global Care Day.
“Hood-Case Elementary is grateful to partner with LyondellBasell during their Global Care Day event,” said Daniel Combs, Assistant Superintendent of Professional Learning and Student and Community Engagement at the Alvin Independent School District. “It is wonderful to collaborate with companies like LyondellBasell who consistently provide an outpouring of service. It is always nice to see a company that acknowledges that philanthropy is of paramount importance, but it is great to see that each piece of this global company truly works to change their communities.”
At its Chocolate Bayou Polymers Plant, LyondellBasell produces high-density polyethylene (HDPE), a plastic used in automotive parts, food packaging and personal care products.
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