Senators wade into debate on chemical recycling of plastics – USA
Posted on December 24, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingA key senator on environmental policy, Delaware Democrat Tom Carper, for example, questioned industry representatives at the Dec. 15 hearing about whether chemical recycling of plastics could hurt the economics of mechanical recycling, if they both start competing for the same feedstocks.
“I’ve heard concerns from the plastics recycling community that increasing the number of chemical recycling facilities in the U.S. could hurt the financial viability of mechanical recycling facilities,” said Carper, chairs of the Environment and Public Works Committee, which held the hearing.
Why would these supposed learned people be debating between two technologies that between them add up to less than 5% of plastic recycling. There are 95% other reasons to debate on how to recycled more plastic and indeed if it can even be recycled! Recycling of plastic should drive down the need for the use of virgin plastic, if it does not do that, then it is not recycling but just repurposing of plastic and doing little to stop the futher production of items from virgin materials. But then the plastics industry already know this, they just won’t admit it.
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