In 1950, global plastic production was about 2 million tons. It's now about 400 million tons—an increase of nearly 20,000%.

Plastic pyrolysis is a chemical process that involves chemically breaking down plastics into other molecules by heating the plastics to extremely high temperatures in the absence of oxygen.

Plastic waste pyrolysis is one technology that could help address this issue. This is a relatively new technique, so researchers still have only a limited knowledge of the pyrolysis process.

Past attempts to use tires for road surfacing, fuel and other methods have failed to take hold or have petered out over cost, ...