NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Supporters of chemical recycling, also known as advanced recycling, have long worked to classify these technologies as a manufacturing process under state and federal regulations, not a form of solid waste incineration. 

These groups say such reclassification will help strengthen domestic recycling supply chains. Environmentalists have long opposed the idea due in part to health and air quality concerns.

The U.S. EPA recently confirmed it won’t consider the issue under an air emissions rule it finalized in June, prompting plastics industry groups to call for working closer with the Trump administration in the future. Read the latest in today’s story.

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