Plastics Recycling & Pyrolysis News

Plastics Recycling News

The latest from Klean and across the plastics recycling and pyrolysis sector.

This is the Klean Fuels news archive: project announcements, technology developments and analysis of the policy and market forces shaping plastics recycling and plastic-to-fuel.

What we cover

Chemical recycling and pyrolysis technology. Continuous liquefaction, catalytic depolymerization, reactor design, emissions control and pyrolysis oil upgrading — reported in terms of what changes for an operator, not in vendor language.

Policy and regulation. Extended producer responsibility, landfill restrictions, recycled-content mandates, mass-balance and chain-of-custody accounting, and the treatment of chemical recycling in national recycling targets. These rules decide project economics as much as engineering does.

Markets and offtake. Pyrolysis oil and plastic-derived distillate pricing, refinery and petrochemical co-processing agreements, brand-owner recycled-content commitments, and the gate fees and feedstock competition setting the input side.

Klean project news. Announcements from across the group — plastic pyrolysis, tire pyrolysis, recovered carbon black, pyrolysis oil and waste-to-energy — including industrial collaborations and progress on delivered facilities.

Why sector news matters more than usual right now

Plastics recycling is mid-structural-change. Mechanical recycling has reached a practical ceiling on the fractions it can economically handle while recycled-content requirements keep rising, and the widening gap is exactly the space chemical recycling occupies. The sector also carries a credibility problem earned by a decade of over-promised projects that never reached commercial operation. Read accordingly: nameplate capacity is not operating capacity, a memorandum of understanding is not an offtake agreement, and a pilot that produced oil is not a plant that produces a specification product. Our coverage makes those distinctions explicit, including about our own sector peers.

Using the archive

Articles are kept evergreen — technical explanations updated as the engineering develops, each linking through to the relevant project case studies and services. New to the subject? The technology pages here (plastic pyrolysis, plastic to oil, plastic to diesel and pyrolysis oil) give the grounding; the archive gives the current state of play. For the technology once built rather than reported, the case studies are better: each describes a real facility, its feedstock, the engineering decisions that followed and the products it delivers — calibrating what a working plant requires against what an announcement implies.

Who reads this archive

Municipal and commercial waste operators seeking a destination for the plastic-rich reject stream they pay to export. Recyclers deciding whether chemical recycling complements or cannibalises their mechanical lines. Refiners and petrochemical producers sourcing recycled-content feedstock against public commitments. Industrial groups with captive plastic waste and a fuel bill. Lenders and investors separating projects that will reach commercial operation from those that will not. That audience sets the editorial standard: specific, technically honest, free of the capacity inflation that has characterised much of the sector's communication.

Recent articles

• Klean’s Plastics to Fuel Oils — Reforming Waste Plastics into Pyrolysis Diesel and Gasoline
• Dow Chemical Adding “Recover” to “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”
• Klean Industries to Recover Energy, Oil and Chemicals from Waste Plastic Recycling
• Vancouver Clean-Tech and Dow Collaborate on Fuel-from-Plastics