And this process of pyrolysis isn’t specific to methane, it’s just very well suited to it since it’s the simplest alkane with the most hydrogen per carbon.

So at the end of the day, nothing that comes out of pyrolysis physically contains more than 10% recycled material (though experts and studies have shown that, in practice, it’s more like 5% or 2%).

After nearly three years of consideration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is standing pat on regulation of pyrolysis operations and will continue to view them as incineration.

Not now. Maybe not ever. Lesson 1: Most of the old plastic that goes into pyrolysis doesn’t actually become new plastic. In traditional recycling, plastic is turned into tiny pellets or flakes ...

Transparency Market Research inc., Friday, September 23, 2022, Press release picture. Rise in pyrolysis of plastics and rubber has enabled conversion of plastic and biomass waste into energy as ...

In the meantime, pyrolysis is being used now, with one report estimating the market for pyrolysis plants at US$40 million in 2024 and predicting it to grow to $1.2 billion by 2033.

The pyrolysis firm Encina is finishing designs with engineers at Worley for a plant that will take in about 160,000 metric tons (t) of waste plastic per year and yield 90,000 t of BTX, ...

So, cold plasma pyrolysis could offer a range of business opportunities to turn something we currently waste into a valuable product. The UK is currently struggling to meet a 50% household ...

More information: Yuanzheng Chen et al, Data-Driven Strategies for Designing Multicomponent Molten Catalysts to Accelerate the Industrialization of Methane Pyrolysis, ACS Catalysis (2025). DOI: 10 ...

They concluded that at the optimum temperature, pyrolysis of e-waste could produce liquids rich in aromatics with high calorific value, of about 35 MJ per kg, as well as hydrogen and methane.

So, cold plasma pyrolysis could offer a range of business opportunities to turn something we currently waste into a valuable product. The UK is currently struggling to meet a 50 percent household ...