42 U.S. Code § 7429—Solid waste combustion
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/7429
ACS Sustainable Chemical Engineering: “Technical, Economic, and Environmental Comparison of Closed-Loop Recycling Technologies for Common Plastics”
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c05497
Beyond Plastics: “The New Coal”
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/t/616ef29221985319611a64e0/1634661022294/REPORT_The_New-Coal_Plastics_and_Climate-Change_10-21-2021.pdf
Earthjustice et al.: Comment on EPA docket
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0382-0165
EPA: Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Other Solid Waste Incineration Units Review; Withdrawal of Proposed Provision Removing Pyrolysis/Combustion Units
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/06/05/2023-11476/standards-of-performance-for-new-stationary-sources-and-emission-guidelines-for-existing-sources
Gaia: “All Talk and No Recycling”
https://www.no-burn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/All-Talk-and-No-Recycling_July-28-1.pdf
Inside Climate News: “‘Advanced’ Recycling of Plastic Using High Heat and Chemicals Is Costly and Environmentally Problematic, A New Government Study Finds”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19012023/plastic-advanced-recycling-cost-environmental-impact/
Inside Climate News: “Inside Indiana’s ‘Advanced’ Plastics Recycling Plant: Dangerous Vapors, Oil Spills and Life-Threatening Fires”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16062023/indiana-advanced-plastics-recycling-vapors-spills-fires/
Inside Climate News: “A New Plant in Indiana Uses a Process Called ‘Pyrolysis’ to Recycle Plastic Waste. Critics Say It’s Really Just Incineration”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11092022/indiana-plant-pyrolysis-plastic-recycling/
The Intercept: “Garbage In, Toxics Out”
https://theintercept.com/2023/09/28/braven-plastic-recycling-toxic-waste/
The Intercept: “A Tale of Two Toxic Cities”
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/24/epa-response-air-pollution-crisis-toxic-racial-divide/
Moms Clean Air Force: Letter to EPA About Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution
https://www.momscleanairforce.org/resources/letter-to-epa-about-draft-national-strategy-to-prevent-plastic-pollution-july-31-2023/
Moms Clean Air Force: Plastics & Petrochemicals Q&A
https://www.momscleanairforce.org/q-a-plastics-and-petrochemicals/
National Academies: “Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste”
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/other/dels/plastics-in-the-ocean/
NRDC: “Recycling Lies”
https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/chemical-recycling-greenwashing-incineration-ib.pdf
ProPublica: “EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime”
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-approved-chevron-fuel-ingredient-cancer-risk-plastics-biofuel
ProPublica: “How Black Communities Become ‘Sacrifice Zones’ for Industrial Air Pollution”
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-black-communities-become-sacrifice-zones-for-industrial-air-pollution
ProPublica: “This ‘Climate-Friendly’ Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk”
https://www.propublica.org/article/chevron-pascagoula-pollution-future-cancer-risk
Reuters: “The Recycling Myth”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/environment-plastic-oil-recycling/
UNEP: “Chemicals in Plastics—A Technical Report”
https://www.unep.org/resources/report/chemicals-plastics-technical-report