World’s Biggest Advanced Plastics Recycling Plant Comes Up in Georgia

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): San Francisco-based Brightmark announced that it will build world’s largest advanced plastic recycling facility in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia. The proposed plant, on a 5.3-million-square-foot lot, will be built at an investment of over $680 million.

The plant will employ a proprietary plastics renewal process to ensure sustainable recycling of end-of-life plastics. The process will be capable of handling various plastic types, including those plastics that are difficult to recycle using conventional techniques. The closed-loop technology will convert the plastic waste into useful products, which will be used in the creation of new plastics, thereby enabling a plastics circular economy, said the company announcement.

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This is the company’s second commercial scale plastics renewal facility, after the y, IN facility. The facility is expected to divert approximately 400,000 tons of plastic waste per annum from landfills and incinerators. The plastics renewal process at the plant is capable of converting 93% of waste into useful products.

The new facility is expected to revolutionize recycling in the region, while supporting the region’s economic development.