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Sources: Advanced Recycling

  1. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/environment-plastic-oil-recycling/
  2. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11092022/indiana-plant-pyrolysis-plastic-recycling/
  3. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239344080_Comparison_between_emissions_from_the_pyrolysis_and_combustion_of_different_wastes
  4. https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/chemical-recycling-greenwashing-incineration-ib.pdf
  5. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956053X14003596?via%3Dihub
  6. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Plastic-and-Health-The-Hidden-Costs-of-a-Plastic-Planet-February-2019.pdf
  7. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c00976
  8. https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/chemical-recycling-greenwashing-incineration-ib.pdf
  9. https://www.no-burn.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Plastics-Burning-Legislative-Alert_Final_August182022.pdf
  10. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0382-0165
  11. https://www.oecd.org/environment/global-plastic-waste-set-to-almost-triple-by-2060.htm
  12. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/t/616ef29221985319611a64e0/1634661022294/REPORT_The_New-Coal_Plastics_and_Climate-Change_10-21-2021.pdf
  13. https://www.no-burn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/All-Talk-and-No-Recycling_July-28-1.pdf
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