Garbage In, Toxics Out: They Promised “Advanced Recycling” for Plastics and Delivered Toxic Waste

Source: https://theintercept.com/2023/09/28/braven-plastic-recycling-toxic-waste/

Author: Schuyler Mitchell

Head south on State Highway 96, past a stretch of soybean crops and tobacco fields, and you’ll arrive in Zebulon, North Carolina, population 8,665. There, on a quiet stretch of Industrial Drive, sits a nondescript commercial building. It’s easy to miss; the name on the front door is barely legible. But atop that humble three-acre lot lies a leading solution to the global plastic pollution crisis — well, according to the plastic industry.