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Inside Indiana’s “Advanced” Plastics Recycling Plant: Dangerous Vapors, Oil Spills and Life-Threatening Fires
The Brightmark “Plastics Renewal” Plant Can’t Get Past the Start-up Phase, as Former Employees Raise Environmental, Health and Safety Concerns
By James Bruggers
ASHLEY, Ind.—Two years ago on a Friday evening in May, Kory Kistler was getting ready to leave work at a recycling plant marketed by its owners as being on the front line in a global war against plastic waste.
Related Knowledge Center: Methane
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As the production of natural gas from shale fields has expanded, so have methane emissions. U.S. methane emissions grew 27 percent from 1990 to 2009, according to the Energy Information Administration. Methane contributes about 10 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and is 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.