What you’ll hear on this episode of PMM’s Machinery Minutes podcast, in which we round up three top stories from the past week in five minutes:

• If 50 percent of plastics in the municipal solid waste stream were redirected from landfills to recycling facilities, the U.S. could add an estimated 173,200 jobs, $12.8 billion in annual payroll and $48.7 billion in annual economic output, according to a new study from the American Chemistry Council.

• Advanced recycling methods using heat and chemicals, chemical depolymerization and thermal processes such as pyrolysis are explained.

• Maguire Products has unveiled the fourth generation of its Ultra line of vacuum dryers.

What you will hear on today’s PMM Machinery Minutes podcast:

• A comprehensive story about the state of advanced recycling revealed some interesting developments.

• Creating a stand-up pouch that can be recycled seemed like an impossible task when a team from Effytec, LD Pack USA, Dukane Corp. and Hoffer Plastics first looked at the problem.
• Conair’s new PowerFill Pro is a compact, portable vacuum conveying system for processors who want the benefits of a central system without the infrastructure of long tubing runs or in-depth wiring and terminations.

Today’s PMM Insight Commentary by Editor Ron Shinn looks ahead to NPE2027:

• Despite industry headwinds, early booth reservations are on track.

• Companies that traditionally buy big booths do not seem to be reducing their space.

• A top NPE official said it is too early to tell if new visa restrictions and tariffs from the Trump administration will impact NPE exhibitors or attendees. There were more than 15,000 registrations from 133 foreign companies at the last NPE.