When you hear the industry buzz words, “chemical recycling”, do you think of technology that converts single-use plastic trash to products? The connection would make sense; chemical recycling, which typically uses heat to break down polymers into their building blocks, is touted as able to turn fast-swelling heaps of wasted plastic packaging back into more packaging. But spent plastics of all kinds are going back into new products—from clothing, carpet, synthetic turf, syringes and needles, to name a few.
