25 Oct 2021 --- Advanced recycling continues to flourish in 2021, despite criticism from NGOs and media reports challenging the cost-effectiveness and environmental performance of these technologies. The increasing market activity has been documented in Rabobank’s latest report on advanced recycling. Many see advanced recycling as crucial to establishing a circular plastics economy. Advanced recycling technologies split polymer chains, converting hard-to-recycle plastics into crude oil, naphtha or fuels.