EPA may exempt pyrolysis 'advanced recycling' from Clean Air Act rules. Advocates say it risks more toxic pollution.

Two new plastic pyrolysis plants are in the works in the US that could add a new recycling option for plastic trash and increase the supply of some commodity chemicals. In pyrolysis, a feedstock such ...

Buried in a proposal on natural disaster recovery is a bid to free pyrolysis plants from federal emission rules ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large proportions of plastic waste don't get recycled. Westend61 via Getty Images Plus In 1950, global plastic production was ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2. A ...

A potential pyrolysis plant to handle plastic waste is so secret at this point that it has its own code name: Project Energy. Even though there are efforts by local government officials to keep ...

Design work is now underway on what is being touted as the world's largest pyrolysis plant, a project that has the support of a major petroleum company that will use output to make food-grade polymers ...