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1/14 Before curbside cans, bottles, paper, cardboard, and plastic packaging are recycled, they need to be sorted. This can be a complicated process. For this week's #FacilityFriday thread, let's look at the role Material Recovery Facilities play in our recycling system. @CLF
2/14 A Material Recovery Facility or MRF (“murf”) is a facility that uses a combination of machines and manual labor to sort commingled recyclables like glass, aluminum, paper, cardboard, and plastic into separate streams. #FacilityFriday bit.ly/3x9sRr6
3/14 Importantly, MRFs don’t actually recycle any of the materials they process. Instead, they prepare the recyclables so that they can be sold to companies who will use them for manufacturing new products. #FacilityFriday
1/ New evidence coming from Georgia shows that so-called “Advanced Recycling” is just the plastic industry’s latest greenwashing tactic designed to mislead the public. Let’s unpack this false solution for this week’s #FacilityFriday @SenDavidWatters @NHHouseofReps @HowardPearlNH
2/ “Advanced Recycling” is a term coined by the plastic industry that refers to technologies that break down plastic waste into a liquid mixture. Industry claims that this material is used to make new plastics but that is a lie. It is ALWAYS burned. #FacilityFriday 
3/This week, Brightmark was forced to halt plans to build the world’s largest plastic-to-fuel facility in Georgia after failing prove that its existing facility in Indiana was able to successfully recycle plastic using the same technology. #FacilityFriday bit.ly/3JMWPWv
1/15 So-called “chemical recycling” or “advanced recycling” are not the safe, green, or “circular" technologies often described by the petrochemical industry. Let’s take a deeper dive and look at a few examples in today’s #FacilityFriday🧵. @CLF
2/15 All so-called “chemical” or “advanced” recycling technologies burn plastic or other waste – or turn it into fuel to be burned elsewhere. Any supposed “raw materials” that come out of the process are purely incidental. #FacilityFriday @GAIAnoburn
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3/15 Burning plastic ≠ recycling. So-called “chemical recycling” uses a two-step incineration process. Step 1: expose plastics to temps as high as 2,800° F to create fuel and waste byproducts. Step 2: burn the dirty fuel and the waste. #FacilityFriday clf.org/blog/burning-w…
