Volunteers to spruce up Liverpool City Hall

Company employees give back this Saturday to communities around the world.

LIVERPOOL (April 19, 2010) – Volunteers from the LyondellBasell Chocolate Bayou Polymers Plant are working with local residents to make the grounds of the city of Liverpool’s new City Hall more beautiful and easier for residents to park, part of the company’s worldwide day of community service called LyondellBasell Global Care Day.

Saturday, April 24, is LyondellBasell’s 11th annual Global Care Day during which employee volunteers at facilities circling the globe will take on projects in their communities in order to make those communities a better place to live and work. This year, 65 communities in 20 countries where the company operates will benefit from Global Care Day. Locally, about 35 employee volunteers and family members from the LyondellBasell Chocolate Bayou Polymers Plant will work with nearly 20 Liverpool residents.  It is one of 17 projects in the greater Houston-Galveston area. “Global Care Day is a significant event where our employees and families have an opportunity to work with community neighbors to demonstrate that, through collaboration and partnerships, we can re-invest in our communities,” said Mike Wobser, site manager at the LyondellBasell Chocolate Bayou Polymers Plant. “We have worked hard to earn good relationships with our neighbors, and these joint projects solidify all of our efforts to make our community a better place to live and work.”

At the new Liverpool City Hall, new flower beds will be built, planted and mulched, sod will be laid and a live oak will be planted. The parking lot is receiving new curbs and painted parking blocks. Some pre-work was completed on the weekends leading up to Global Care Day. “We have really enjoyed working with local Liverpool residents on this project, and they have been very generous to their city,” said Amanda Roby, a LyondellBasell engineer who, along with fellow employee Pat Eaves, volunteered to lead the Chocolate Bayou Global Care Day project.

The plant donated money and labor for the project and local organizations such as T and T Landscape Curbing, Friendswood Firewood, Evergreen Trees and D and D Trucking also donated supplies and services to the city, Roby said. Wobser added that while the company continues to manage costs, the best contribution to the community is ‘sweat equity.’ “We can provide the physical labor on projects that are most needed, and we can help organizations and communities that are struggling in today’s challenging economic times,” Wobser said.

Seventeen Global Care Day projects in the greater Houston area will include work at San Jacinto Battleground & Battleship Texas Park, Bayshore Elementary in La Porte, North Pointe Elementary School in Houston’s Clear Lake Area, a Pasadena homeless shelter, Rebuilding Together projects (repairing homes of elderly residents) in Pasadena, Cloverleaf and Highlands, Armand Bayou Nature Center in Pasadena, baseball fields in Galena Park, an east Houston city park in the Oak Meadows neighborhood, Sheldon Elementary, Crenshaw Elementary in Channelview, Hermann Park in Houston and landscaping the new Liverpool City Hall. April 24 has been declared LyondellBasell Day in the city of Shoreacres.

Global Care Day began in 2000 as a way to reach out to local communities where the company operates. Global Care Day challenges employees worldwide to participate in community service above and beyond ongoing community involvement activities with a special project on the same day. Each participating site selects a project that meets the following criteria: It addresses a community need, it is aligned with one of the company’s community-relations focus-areas of education, environmental quality or community sustainability and the result will be a visible improvement because of employee involvement.