Ohio Hotspots: Where Citizens Fight Planned or Built Pyrolysis/Gasification Operations
SOBE Thermal plans a waste-to-energy pyrolysis plant in both Lowellville and Youngstown, Ohio
Why did the mayor “give” a Dublin energy dealer a $1.2 million "driveway" on McGaffney Ave.? Will the next “gift” be a Norfolk Southern-rail serviced
$300 million 100,000-square-foot co-generation plant on 366 acres across
from the new Riverfront Park/Canoe Livery? This SOBE Thermal Energy LLC
pyrolysis operation would "superheat” shredded tires, 7 types of plastics,
computers, railroad ties, carpet and E-waste into commercial products such
as syngas, carbon black, coke, and gypsum salt. READ MORE >
Freepoint Eco-Systems 522 Milliken Drive, Hebron Union Licking Has state air permits, construction , plastic to fuel - Based Stamford CT Under construction/operational
1/7/25 Facility broke ground in December, now partnering with Alterra on technology
Air permit filed 11/9/2023 CONTACT:
Alterra Energy (formerly Vadxx Energy)1200 E Waterloo Rd, Akron Applied for renewal of state air permit 10/2022 #P01224081677011258 plastic to fuel
https://api.oilandgaswatch.org/d/75/82/758254d51a34488e99d38baff3fd6c3e.1685455740.pdf CONTACT:
PureCycle Technologies Inc 1125 County Road 1A Ironton Has state air permits expiring 9/6/23, NPDES terminated They claim plastic to plastic (#5)Based Orlando FL https://edocpub.epa.ohio.gov/publicportal/ViewDocument.aspx?docid=2017724 Installing final equipment 1/7/25 opening another plant in Augusta, Georgia Reportedly produced 1 million pounds of pellets as of 3/1/24 RCRA hazardous waste form CONTACT:
Places Where Citizens Prevented Pyrolysis Plants
Macon, Georgia, fought a fossil fuel maker and WON.
So-called plastic to fuel manufacturer Brightmark attempted to build in Macon, Georgia. The community rallied and fought this company which unfortunately is planning a second project at a different Georgia location.
READ MORE via Georgia Public Radio
READ MORE via 41NBC
Here's a great article from Open Mind on how they did it!
Middle Georgia Regional Airport, site that Brightmark was not allowed to build on, outside beautiful Macon, Georgia
Gary, Indiana Fought Fulcrum Bioenergy and WON
Gary Advocates for Responsible Development (GARD), activists and environmental advocates, are glad that Fulcrum Centerpoint BioEnergy’s plans for a plastics-to-fuels plant in Gary, Indiana filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and failed to meet city requirements. For years these activists alerted the public to the dangers of this pyrolysis. Fulcrum laid nearly all its staff and its Sierra BioFuels Plant in Storey County, Nevada, shut down in mid-May.
Read this Capitol B article about their success.
NWI story archived here
The type of plant that was unsuccessfully proposed for Gary, Indiana. In a blow to the idea of turning municipal waste into fuels and chemicals, Fulcrum BioEnergy laid off most of its staff and shut down its flagship plant near Reno, Nevada, in mid-May
Point Township, PA fought Encina and WON
Save Our Susquehanna/Protect Point Township activists are proud to announce that Encina will not move forward with the construction of its circular manufacturing facility in Point Township, Pennsylvania that proposed to break down plastics to make benzene, toluene, xylene, and propylene.
Read More via Daily Item
Encina press release
Artist's rendition of cancelled circular manufacturing facility in Point Township, Pennsylvania that proposed to break down plastics to make benzene, toluene, xylene, and propylene
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Chemical Group has officially announced the cancellation of its planned MMA (methyl methacrylate) production facility in Ascension Parish, Geismar, Louisiana. They had aimed to produce methyl methacrylate, a raw material for acrylic resins, from ethylene.
Read More via Hydrocarbon Processing
Read More via Louisiana Illuminator
Mitsubishi Chemical Group methyl methacrylate plant in Singapore- their plans for similar plant in Geismar, Louisiana, were not successful
Templeton, MA, Halts Pyrolysis with Moratorium
www.templetonma.gov/home/files/stm-125&ved=2ahUKEwjp0LjqrKuLAxW7G9AFHVAhLy8QFnoECAwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3tdouEBBRN_zMgpG21EmB0 pdf of moratorium
Templeton MA
Moratorium when prohibits for a Period of 12 Months Waste Plastics Incineration,. AKA Pyrolysis, Advanced Recycling, Gasification,
Templeton, MA
Youngstown, Ohio Halts Pyrolysis with Moratorium
Moratorium Ordinance RENEWED until December 25, 2025. Read PRESS COVERAGE.
Read MORATORIUM ORDINANCE SIGNED BY MAYOR OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.
Youngstown, Ohio
IN PROGRESS - researching & rewriting these
Pyrolysis/Gasification Operations That were Prevented
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The Regenyx plant in Tigard, Oregon, converted polystyrene waste into plastic feedstock. (Credit: Ian Hughes/flickr)
Latest chemical recycling plant closing spurs concern over the industry’s viability
Oregon’s Regenyx plant announced its closing in late February, with those involved calling it a success, despite never reaching planned capacity and millions of dollars lost.
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Chemical recycling project cancelled in Belgium
Belgian Dutch start-up Advanced Plastic Purification International (APPI) has cancelled plans to establish a pyrolysis plant in the port of Ostend
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Many cities and neighborhoods are now threatened by greenwashed so-called "advanced recycling" plants - mostly using plastics. Many listed here via @Oil and Gas Watch https://news.oilandgaswatch.org/:
https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/12081917/embed?auto=1
Full article:
https://news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/no-plastics-panacea-chemical-recycling-causes-pollution-promotes-waste
Excellent plastic info here via @Beyond Plastics:
https://www.beyondplastics.org/news-stories/tag/plastics+recycling+deception
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Exxon coming to Point Comfort, Texas https://grist.org/accountability/exxon-plastics-plant-point-comfort-texas/ Truth out: Exxon Is Quietly Planning New $8.6 Billion Plastics Plant for Texas’s Gulf Coast | Truthout
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Formosa Point Comfort Plant is a petrochemical and plastics manufacturing complex located in Calhoun County, Texas. This facility consists of sixteen production units and support facilities, including olefins, LLDPE (Linear Low-Density Polyethylene), HDPE (High Density Polyethylene), polypropylene, and VCM/PVC (vinyl chloride monomer/polyvinyl chloride)
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Community Groups Announce Opposition to Empire Diversified Plastics Pyrolysis Plant as Proposed in Follansbee, West Virginia
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1299628518023403
or on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdwZTTgD7HY
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2 articles explaining:
A billboard outside of SpaceX headquarters targeted Elon Musk's plans for planet colonization on Earth Day: 'Mars sucks'
'I love you earth' by Yoko Ono + 'mars sucks': two billboards to celebrate earth day 2021
To celebrate world earth day 2021, well-known artist yoko ono and LA-based creative agency activista have each launched billboard artworks, featuring quotes that highlight today’s environmental crisis. standing in various locations across the UK, the billboard series by yoko ono makes a simple yet bold declaration: ‘I love you earth’. meanwhile, activista has installed a billboard outside spaceX’s california headquarters which reads ‘mars sucks’, as an attempt to criticize elon musk’s plans on colonizing the red planet and to emphasize that the earth should be prioritized.
Planet Earth has given us every wonderful, miraculous, delicious thing to survive. Why abandon our planet & accept hellish exile on a barren, cold desert planet?
Mars sucks.
Its weather sucks. Its distance sucks. Its atmosphere
sucks. The little water it has, sucks.
It has sucked for billions of years. And will suck for billions more.
You know what doesn't suck? Me, Earth.
| have life, vast oceans and lush forests, water, air.
1 give you absolutely everything that you need.
But the way you treat me? Totally sucks.
Your stupid, insatiable greed is killing me.
For what? So that you can turn my
abundant life into dead cash.
And then, you dream of Mars. A hellhole. A barren,
desolate, wasteland you can't set foot on fast enough.
Why not use some of that creative energy and billions on saving me? You know, the planet that's giving you what you need to live right now.
Mars can wait. I can't.
-Earth