The big promise of advanced recycling

On Point and ProPublica are launching a new collaboration, bringing you monthly special episodes that combine ProPublica’s groundbreaking investigative reporting with On Point’s incisive analysis.

In the first episode: The world is awash in plastic waste. Oil companies are promoting a new technology they say could change the game — an advanced form of chemical recycling. But can it deliver on its promise?

Lisa Song, reporter at ProPublica, covering the environment, energy and climate change. Author of the ProPublica article “The ‘delusion’ of advanced plastic recycling."

Anthony Schiavo, senior director and principal analyst at Lux Research, based in Boston. Host of Lux Research's “Innovation Matters Podcast."

George Huber, professor of chemical engineering at University of Wisconsin Madison and Director of the Center for Chemical Upcycling of Waste Plastics.

Jason DesVeaux, researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Bethanie Carney Almroth, professor in the Department of biological & environmental sciences at the University of Gothenburg.