The Washington-based American Chemistry Council’s (ACC’s) Plastics-to-Fuel and Petrochemistry Alliance has changed its name to The Chemical Recycling Alliance (TCRA) and has added three new members.
TCRA’s newest members are Sealed Air Corp., Charlotte, North Carolina; New Hope Energy, Tyler, Texas; and Golden Renewable Energy LLC, Yonkers, New York. The companies join chemical recycling technology providers Agilyx Corp., Renewlogy and RES Polyflow (now Brightmark Energy) and associate members Americas Styrenics LLC and Tetra Tech Inc.
“Advanced recycling and recovery technologies, such as chemical recycling, present a critical and tremendous opportunity for the entire plastics value chain,” says Craig Cookson, senior director, recycling and recovery. “Members of the American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division have committed to recycling or recovering all plastic packaging in the United States by 2040, and TCRA technology providers will play an important role in realizing that goal. A recent report found that many chemical recycling technologies are still in a nascent phase, but can reach scale with strategic investments and new, vertically integrated business models.”
Cookson adds, “We urge the entire value chain, including brands and technology providers, to work with us in promoting policies that help bring these solutions to scale.”
“Sealed Air has pledged to design and advance our packaging solutions to be 100 percent recyclable or reusable by 2025,” says Ron Cotterman, vice president of innovation and sustainability for Sealed Air. “We are excited to join The Chemical Recycling Alliance to help build out the infrastructure that could bring advanced recycling and recovery technologies to scale.”
“New Hope Energy is excited to join TCRA in educating policymakers, communities and others about the important benefits of these technologies and to help create opportunities to grow them across the United States,” says company CEO Johnny Combs.
“We’re proud to join TCRA in these efforts,” says Golden Renewable Energy Chief Operating Officer Michael Moreno. “Not only do these technologies create valuable products, they provide a solution to help eliminate plastic waste.”
Advanced plastics recycling and recovery technologies can create a wide range of products from postuse, recovered plastics, such as transportation fuels, crude oil and plastic and chemical feedstocks.