The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis — ProPublica

The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the crisis.

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