Gov. Hogan: Don't turn plastic into fossil fuels

The chemical industry is pushing a new dirty energy in Maryland and across the country: converting plastic waste into fossil fuels.

Their slickly branded “advanced recycling” or “chemical recycling” is pretty simple-- stripping plastic back to it’s petrochemical base and then burning it like any fossil fuel. It’s bad for the environment and public health and antithetical to our goals of stopping global warming and moving towards zero-waste.

Send a message to Gov. Hogan and tell him: no new infrastructure for plastic pollution.

Subject: Stop plastics to pollution facilities

Your Letter:

I'm writing to ask you to prevent new infrastructure in Maryland for converting plastic waste into fossil fuels.

The chemical industry’s slickly branded “advanced recycling” or “chemical recycling” is pretty simple: stripping plastic back to it’s petrochemical base and then burning it like any fossil fuel. It’s bad for the environment and public health and antithetical to our goals of stopping global warming and moving towards zero-waste.

Generating dirty energy from plastic waste is uneconomical at best, and at worst will create a demand for a never ending supply of “fuel.” It’s no solution to our growing plastic crisis. In fact, these processes may actually increase overall pollution, since they include an additional, energy-intensive step in the process to turn the plastics into fossil fuels before you even get to the stage of burning them.

Our best chance to prevent the conversion of plastic waste into fossil fuel pollution is to stop it before it starts.

Please stop any new infrastructure for converting plastic to fossil fuels.

Sincerely,

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