SEATTLE (Recycling Monster): Freepoint Eco-Systems LLC broke ground on new advanced plastics recycling facility in Hebron, Ohio. This is the company’s first commercial-scale plant.

The facility will make use of an existing 260,000-square-foot warehouse at the site spanning over 25 acres. It will have capacity to recycle around 90,000 tons of end-of-life waste plastic, which would otherwise end up in landfills or incinerators.

The facility employs pyrolysis technology to convert waste plastic into raw materials which are used in manufacturing new plastic products. All feedstock produced at the plant will be supplied to Shell, in accordance with a long-term supply agreement signed by both the companies earlier this year.

Freepoint noted that the Ohio flagship facility is expected to create around 200 jobs at the time of construction. Once the facility achieves commercial production, it will generate as many as 70 full-time jobs.

Jeff McMahon, Managing Director, Freepoint commented that groundbreaking of the Ohio plant marks the next big step in expanding its advanced recycling footprint in the United States and across the globe. The facility will have a positive impact in the Ohio community through plastic recycling, job creation and greenhouse gas reductions, he added.