PMM Insight: A Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing Podcast

Increased recycling would create jobs, boost economic output: Machinery Minutes

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What you’ll hear on this episode of PMM’s Machinery Minutes podcast, in which we round up three top stories from the past week in five minutes: 

  • If 50 percent of plastics in the municipal solid waste stream were redirected from landfills to recycling facilities, the U.S. could add an estimated 173,200 jobs, $12.8 billion in annual payroll and $48.7 billion in annual economic output, according to a new study from the American Chemistry Council. 
    • Advanced recycling methods using heat and chemicals, chemical depolymerization and thermal processes such as pyrolysis are explained. 
      • Maguire Products has unveiled the fourth generation of its Ultra line of vacuum dryers. 
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