Environmentalists Want the FTC Green Guides to Slam the Door on the ‘Chemical’ Recycling of Plastic Waste The plastics industry says heating and treating plastic waste with chemicals enables it to make new plastics. But environmentalists say that process, emitting large amounts of climate and air pollution, isn’t recycling and isn’t green. By James Bruggers
‘Advanced’ Recycling of Plastic Using High Heat and Chemicals Is Costly and Environmentally Problematic, A New Government Study Finds By James Bruggers
Congress Urges EPA to Maintain Clean-Air Regulations on Chemical Recycling of Plastics By James Bruggers
Is ‘Chemical Recycling’ a Solution to the Global Scourge of Plastic Waste or an Environmentally Dirty Ruse to Keep Production High? By James Bruggers
An Environmental Group Challenges a Proposed Plastics ‘Advanced Recycling’ Plant in Pennsylvania By James Bruggers
The Plastics Industry Searches for a ‘Circular’ Way to Cut Plastic Waste and Make More Plastics By James Bruggers
A New Plant in Indiana Uses a Process Called ‘Pyrolysis’ to Recycle Plastic Waste. Critics Say It’s Really Just Incineration By James Bruggers
A Houston Firm Says It’s Opening a Billion-Dollar Chemical Recycling Plant in a Small Pennsylvania Town. How Does It Work? By James Bruggers