ProPublica | Pyrolysis and the Deception Behind Plastic Recycling @ProPublica | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with recycled ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’t curb the plastic crisis.


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