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Plastic Waste

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October 06, 2026 8 min read

21 States, 34 Bills, 2 Laws: What Advanced Recycling State Laws Changed Since 2024

Advanced recycling state laws reassign pyrolysis to manufacturing in state code. Here is what that exemption buys, and the federal rule it never touched.

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August 13, 2026 6 min read

$140 a Ton Hides a Split Basket: What Rising Recycled Commodity Prices Do to MRF Economics

Recycled commodity prices climbed in 2026, but the rebound is a divergence, and MRF economics now reward whoever owns the pellet, not the bale.

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June 18, 2026 6 min read

40,000 Tonnes a Year, Locked for a Decade: Why Plastics-to-Fuels Lives or Dies on Feedstock Security

Abundia locked a decade of polyolefin feedstock before building Cedar Port. Why feedstock security, not the reactor, decides plastics-to-fuels projects.

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June 02, 2026 8 min read

Viridor Pulls the Plug on Quantafuel: What 'Commercially Uninvestable' Means for Pyrolysis Project Finance

The Viridor Quantafuel shutdown wasn't a tech failure - Skive hit 75% yield. Plastics-to-liquids pyrolysis economics broke on capital structure, not policy.

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May 25, 2026 8 min read

The Plastic Export Ban Comes in Two Stages. Domestic Conversion Capacity Is Only Ready for One.

EU Waste Shipment Regulation 2024/1157 just kicked in. Here's what the 21 November plastic export ban actually does to domestic conversion economics.

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December 23, 2025 7 min read

Plastic Waste Pyrolysis: Breaking Down the Unrecyclable

How pyrolysis converts unrecyclable plastic waste into liquid fuel, syngas, and char - providing an economic and environmental alternative to landfilling or incinerating contaminated and mixed plastics.

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