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Why Is Ethylene Essential in the U.S. Petrochemical Industry?

The U.S. Ethylene Market is a cornerstone of the petrochemical industry, supporting a wide range of applications. The market recorded a production of 19 million tons in 2024 and is projected to reach 20 million tons by 2033, while consumption is expected to grow to 49.8 million tons.

According to the U.S. Ethylene Market Growth report, ethylene is one of the most widely used chemical intermediates. It is primarily used to produce polyethylene, which is essential for packaging, construction, and consumer goods.

One of the main reasons for its importance is its versatility. Ethylene is used in the production of plastics, synthetic fibers, and chemicals, making it indispensable for modern manufacturing. Around 38% of ethylene is used in packaging applications alone, highlighting its widespread use.

The Ethylene Market Trends also emphasize its role in construction and automotive industries. Ethylene-based materials are used in insulation, pipes, and lightweight components, supporting infrastructure development and vehicle efficiency.

Additionally, ethylene plays a key role in agriculture through the production of films and fertilizers. This further expands its application scope and drives demand.

The Ethylene Industry Analysis indicates that technological advancements are improving production efficiency and reducing costs. These innovations are helping manufacturers meet growing demand while maintaining competitiveness.

In conclusion, ethylene is essential to the U.S. petrochemical industry due to its versatility and wide range of applications. Its importance is expected to remain strong in the future.

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EU aims to curb plastic pollution with new rules targeting nightmare spills of tiny pellets

EU takes aim at tiny plastic pellet pollution with new regulations

Plastic can end up in the environment by many channels. Improper waste management can cause single-use plastics like bottles and grocery bags to end up in our oceans. But there’s also a smaller, sneakier source of plastic that also pollutes the land and sea. Called “nurdles,” tens of millions of these tiny pellets have found their way into the ocean after ship spills. On Thursday, the European Commission will vote on a measure to curb the pellets’ impacts by forcing companies to implement new measures to prevent and mitigate pollution. What are nurdles? The term may sound cutesy, but these balls are anything but. The lentil-sized plastic pellets are “the building blocks” of the plastic industry. They are melted down to make things like water bottles, grocery bags, and other food wrappers. However, many end up elsewhere. The Commission estimates that in the EU in 2019, between 52,140 tonnes and 184, 290 tonnes of pellets were lost to the environment. As a comparison, that’s between 2100 and 7300 truckloads of pellets annually. After tyre dust, nurdles are the second largest source of microplastics in the ocean, often coming from ship spills. The X-Press pearl shipwreck spilled 1,680 tonnes of nurdles into the ocean and onto the shores of Sri Lanka in 2021 in the worst of such spills. They have also occurred in Europe sending these tiny plastic pellets into the North Sea and waters off the coast of Spain, and France.

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Note the biggest source; tyre dust. That is getting worse thanks to EVs being much heavier than fossil fuel vehicles.

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Will the fifth Global Plastic Treaty talks finally seal a deal?

Global plastic production has increased over 200-fold to hit almost 460 million tonnes annually since 1950.

The Global Plastics Treaty talks kick off on Monday and will see nations gather in Busan, South Korea, for a week of discussions. The aim is to produce a legally binding treaty that will address the world’s plastic pollution problem by tackling the material throughout its full lifecycle. Global plastic production has increased over 200-fold to almost 460 million tonnes annually since 1950, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Here’s what to expect from the fifth and final meeting of the UN’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution. Why do we need a Global Plastics Treaty? In 2022, the INC set in motion the drafting process for a Global Plastics Treaty. Plastic production has soared in recent decades, but recycling has struggled to keep pace. As of 2015, only nine per cent of all plastic waste ever produced had been recycled. This has resulted in around 19 million tonnes of plastic filtering into the natural environment each year, which is harmful and even fatal for wildlife. Plastic production is projected to double or even triple by 2040, a growth that would use up roughly a quarter of the remaining carbon budget for the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C.

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Well, we know the plastics industry, i.e. big oil and big chemicals, are not going to solve this problem. They only make it worse.

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Q&A: Is Pittsburgh Becoming ‘the Plastic City’? - Inside Climate News

With the new Shell plastics plant now operational in Beaver County, water quality advocates in the Pittsburgh region are concerned about inc

Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

Once a month for nearly two years, Evan Clark, the Waterkeeper at Three Rivers Waterkeeper, a water quality advocacy organization based in Pittsburgh, has traveled by boat along the Ohio River to Shell’s enormous new plastics plant in Beaver County. 

This facility is a cracker plant, using ethane from fracked gas to make ethylene and ultimately to manufacture up to 1.6 million tons of plastic per year. In his boat, Clark looks for tiny plastic pellets called nurdles and monitors the plant’s outfalls, the places where its wastewater is discharged into the river. 

Since the plant became operational in the fall of 2022, Clark has noticed strong chemical odors at the outfalls—potentially a sign of contaminants like volatile organic compounds, or VOCs—and found many, many nurdles, a feedstock used to make everything from soda bottles to car parts. 

This winter, Clark and the team he works with at the Mountain Watershed Association collected samples from 11 square feet of soil from the Ohio’s shorelines both upstream and downstream of the plant. Three Rivers Waterkeeper works to protect the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, while the Mountain Watershed Association focuses on protecting the Youghiogheny River, a tributary of the Monongahela. 

They found more than 700 nurdles, of all different colors, shapes and sizes. “They start to get kind of a white chalky appearance after they’ve been in the water for a long time,” he said, and nurdles also appear different depending on where they were made.

It was an alarming discovery that has implications beyond Shell, Clark said, although recently the team has been seeing more fresh, similar-looking nurdles that seem to have been in the water for a shorter period of time and could be linked to the Beaver County plant. They haven’t yet been able to procure a sample from Shell to match the nurdles definitively. 

“That is a tiny area, smaller than half a sheet of plywood, and our preliminary analysis of what we’re looking at there didn’t point directly to a problem at Shell,” he said. “But it pointed to a plastics problem that we have throughout the whole region.” 

To Clark, the “incredible” concentration of nurdles was evidence of the industry’s role in contributing to plastic pollution. “If we’re finding that amount of plastic spread through our environment that is the responsibility of manufacturers—these are plastic nurdles, they’re not from consumers—we have a real serious issue with the lack of regulation of plastics manufacturing,” he said.