Increased recycling would create jobs, boost economic output: Machinery Minutes

What you’ll hear on this episode of PMM’s Machinery Minutes podcast, in which we round up three top stories from the past week in five minutes:  If 50 percent of plastics in the municipal solid waste stream were redirected from landfills to recycling facilities, the U.S. could add an estimated 173,200 jobs, $12.8 billion in annual payroll and $48.7 billion in annual economic output, according to a new study from the American Chemistry Council.  Advanced recycling methods using heat and chemicals, chemical depolymerization and thermal processes such as pyrolysis are explained.  Maguire Products has unveiled the fourth generation of its Ultra line of vacuum dryers.