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Chemical or feedstock recycling is being touted as a game
changer that can transform recycling. With chemical recycling,
innovative technologies - such as pyrolysis, gasification, chemical
depolymerization, catalytic cracking and reforming, and
hydrogenation - convert plastic waste into chemicals. These
technologies produce feedstocks such as monomers, oligomers, and
higher hydrocarbons that can in turn be used to make virgin
polymers.
Considering the steep recycling targets introduced by European
Union regulators and the inadequacy of mechanical recycling to meet
those goals, it makes sense that chemical recycling could play a
complementary role. However, chemical recycling operations have yet
to reach industrial or commercial scale.
