Abstract
In Akron, Ohio, situated amid industrial buildings and auto service centers, is a small oasis of polished steel and nonslip scaffolding. The proprietors of this new facility hope it’s the future of the plastics industry . The facility, a pyrolysis plant run by Alterra Energy, breaks down plastic waste into a crude oil–like mixture that can be fed into petrochemical plants and transformed back into new plastics. The plant can process about 60 metric tons (t) of plastics a day. It was the largest operational plastics pyrolysis plant in the US until recently, when it was edged out by a larger facility that ExxonMobil started up in Houston. Many more pyrolysis plants, including ones using Alterra’s technology, are on drawing boards for sites around the world. Journalists visited the Alterra plant in November during a trip organized by the American Chemistry Council, a trade group keen on promoting plastics recycling
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