An idea the EPA is floating—to stop classifying a plastics recycling technology as a type of incineration—would ease permitting for facilities turning wastes into products, according to a major trade association.
The permit-easing idea is part of a broader deregulatory rule the Environmental Protection Agency proposed last month. The EPA invited comment on whether it should remove pyrolysis units from its definition of “other solid waste incinerators” regulated by the Clean Air Act’s incinerator rules.
Environmental groups oppose the idea, saying it would leave pyrolysis facilities’ air emissions uncontrolled by regulations, thereby endangering communities’ health.
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An idea the EPA is floating—to stop classifying a plastics recycling technology as a type of incineration—would ease permitting for facilities turning wastes into products, according to a major trade association.
The permit-easing idea is part of a broader deregulatory rule the Environmental Protection Agency proposed last month. The EPA invited comment on whether it should remove pyrolysis units from its definition of “other solid waste incinerators” regulated by the Clean Air Act’s incinerator rules.
Environmental groups oppose the idea, saying it would leave pyrolysis facilities’ air emissions uncontrolled by regulations, thereby endangering communities’ health.
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-Elliot