$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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Plastic Waste
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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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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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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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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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