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Plastic pollution is a big problem. But new technologies can improve recycling rates for plastic waste in a major way. In fact, at our new advanced recycling facility in Baytown, TX, we're using chemical processes to break down difficult-to-recycle plastics to their molecular level to make new raw materials. That will help keep up to 80 million pounds of plastic waste per year out of landfills. And as we scale up advanced recycling operations around the world, we expect to increase that impact t