Federal bill aims to reclassify chemical recycling as a manufacturing process

Supporters say the Recycling Technology Innovation Act, backed by ACC, would streamline permitting and strengthen domestic ...
Yahoo

Plastic pyrolysis − chemists explain a technique attempting to tackle plastic waste by bringing the heat

In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It’s now about 400 million tons – an increase of nearly 20,000%. As a material, it has seemingly limitless potential. Plastic is ...
Salon

The delusion of advanced plastic recycling using pyrolysis

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. It was a small container that held diced fruit, the type thrown into lunch boxes. And it was the first ...
The Providence Journal

This process uses heat to turn plastic into flammable fuel. Legislators want to ban it in RI.

PROVIDENCE – Three years ago, after state regulators rejected a proposal in West Warwick to build a medical waste-to-energy plant, Gov. Dan McKee went a step further and signed a statewide ban on ...

Chemical Recycling of Plastics Market Volume to Worth 11.90 Million Tons by 2035

According to Towards Chemical and Materials, the global chemical recycling of plastics market volume was valued at 1.37 ...