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Current plastic disposal methods result in large volumes of plastic that is contaminated, mixed in type and in a form that in part cannot be reused with current recycling methods. Advanced chemical recycling methods overcome these limitations by allowing waste plastic to be made into new plastic. 

Plastic recycling needs these more advanced recycling methods in order to meet the needs and desires of companies and consumers for recycled products. Advanced recycling will also be required to meet the recycled product goals and mandates that are being set by regulatory agencies and plastic consumers, to eliminate waste plastic entering the world's landfills and oceans. 

Advanced chemical recycling is accomplished by using a well-proven approach called "pyrolysis".  Simply, pyrolysis is one method of decomposing material chemically by applying heat.   Pyrolysis is now being used to recycle waste plastic material. Temperatures are raised in an absence of oxygen environment to a level high enough to break the existing chemical bonds within the plastic.  The plastic returns to the original building blocks that made the plastic and can be further processed to make new plastic. 

 This new application of pyrolysis to the plastic recycling process allows plastic to be recycled infinite times and made into any type of new plastic that is desired, thus overcoming the limitations faced by traditional mechanical recycling.

Plastic offers a number of superior performance characteristics with the benefits extending into many areas of everyone’s lives.  Because of the wide range of applications for plastics, there are also a wide range of types and properties of plastics.  

There are many complications to address in plastic recycling.  Different manufacturing processes are used based on the polymer structure. Some polymers, such as flexible and rigid foam, are not meltable and therefore are unsuitable for mechanical recycling.  Other plastics are meltable but lose their properties after being mechanically recycled repeatably and can no longer be used for their original purpose. 

 Advanced chemical recycling addresses these issues by allowing waste plastic to be made into new polymers for plastic materials. Plastic can only be comprehensively recycled on a large scale with additional chemical processes.