Antis Successfully Chase Away $1.1B PA Plastics Recycling Plant

Exactly a year ago, MDN brought you the good news that a company based in Houston, Texas called Encina (not to be confused with Encino Energy, which drills for natural gas and oil in Ohio) was proposing to build a $1.1 billion plastics recycling plant along the Susquehanna River in Northumberland County, PA --- about 60 miles north of Harrisburg (see Antis Oppose $1.1B Plastics Recycling Plant in Northumberland, PA). Unlike other advanced recycling plants in the U.S., Encina said that none of the material produced at the Northumberland plant would be sold as diesel fuel, synthetic oil, or other forms of fossil fuels. The material from the plant would only be used to make other (new) plastic products. Yet the plant faced opposition from irrational anti-plastic/anti-fossil fuel zealots. The opposition succeeded. Yesterday, Encina said it is killing the Northumberland project and will instead build plants in other places that actually want them.

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