In the bin: Will EPA's National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution stymie recycling by pyrolysis? The features of pyrolysis that are most attractive to the plastics industry have made it a bogeyman within the environmental community.

The article analyzes the potential of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution to hinder pyrolysis-based plastics recycling. Topics discussed are EPA requirement to review companies submitting pyrolysis oil chemicals to conduct testing for impurities under the Toxic Substances Control Act, concerns about recycling and the possibility of toxic components, health and environmental risks associated with the pyrolysis of waste plastic.