Reject the Faux Fix of Chemical Recycling

Congress recently introduced the deceptively named Recycling Technology Innovation Act (H.R.6566), which would amend the Clean Air Act to ease permitting for certain chemical recycling technologies, like gasification and pyrolysis.

Heavily promoted by the oil industry, chemical recycling is an umbrella term for a suite of technologies. Some of these technologies, like gasification and pyrolysis, are energy-intensive processes that use high heat to turn plastics into oil or gas, rather than back into plastics. Along the way, they also produce vast amounts of hazardous waste and significant greenhouse gases. The end product is not a new milk jug from recycled plastic but rather dirty fuels that will exacerbate the climate crisis.

Add your name now and call on your elected leaders to REJECT this faux fix to the plastic pollution crisis.