An Environmental Group Challenges a Proposed Plastics ‘Advanced Recycling’ Plant in Pennsylvania – USA
Posted on November 13, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingAdvanced recycling is a big part of what the chemical industry claims is an answer to a global plastics problem that the United Nations has described as a “triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss and pollution.” But many environmental advocates view advanced recycling of plastics as little more than another form of pollution-causing incineration and a way to perpetuate fossil fuels and single-use plastic packaging.
“The sooner we respect the hard scientific facts that plastics are fundamentally not safely recyclable, the sooner the world can make serious progress on reducing unnecessary single-use plastics and harmful plastic production, waste, and pollution,” said Jan Dell, a chemical engineer who has worked as a consultant to the oil and gas industry and now runs The Last Beach Cleanup. Dell worked on both reports.
Chemical recycling of plastics, particularly mixed plastics from municipal and commercial sources, has struggled to take off commercially, even as the chemical industry has worked to tip public policy in its favor in Pennsylvania and across the country.
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