EPA: Plastic Waste Is NOT A Renewable Fuel

"Chemical recycling" is a polluting false solution to our plastic pollution crisis that's being aggressively promoted by Big Plastic to allow the industry to continue to churn out more and more polluting single-use plastics while making it look like they're promoting a "solution".

"Chemical recycling" (also known as “advanced recycling” or "molecular recycling") refers to a suite of processes including pyrolysis and gasification that use high heat and/or chemicals chemicals to turn plastic waste into fossil fuels and other feedstocks that are most often burned.

It's got a lot of names but no matter what you call it, making fuel from plastic is actually worse in many ways for the climate, our environment, and human health than simply burning fossil fuels. Unfortunately, the EPA has recently been approving highly polluting "chemical recycling" projects under the Renewable Fuel Standard program.

Join us in urging the EPA to stop supporting "chemical recycling" and falsely permitting these polluting projects to move forward under the guise of "renewable" fuel sources.