By Kimlye Stager | Pinal Central
FreePoint Ecosystems, based in Connecticut, is planning its second plastics recycling plant in the Eloy Industrial Park, near 11 Mile Corner Road and Frontier Street.
FreePoint, which opened an Ohio plant last year, takes waste plastic as feedstock, puts it through a process called “pyrolysis” and makes a hydrocarbon liquid, “PyOil,” that becomes a substitute feedstock for crude oil. It is used to create many products including medical grade applications.
The process takes the waste plastic, heats it in an oxygen-free environment and turns it from a solid into a gas, then the gas that’s mostly hydrocarbon is put into a condensation tower that converts it to the PyOil. It is shipped to other companies to become new plastic.
