Freepoint Eco-Systems plans plastics recycling facility near Hebron

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Freepoint Eco-Systems, based in Connecticut, announced plans to build its first commercial-scale advanced plastics recycling facility at the Newark Industrial Park in Union Township, where it had a ground-breaking ceremony on Wednesday.

UNION TOWNSHIP − Freepoint Eco-Systems announced Friday plans to open its first commercial-scale advanced plastics recycling facility in the Newark Industrial Park in 2024.

The Connecticut-based company said it will employ 70 and create 200 construction jobs for what it calls one of the largest advanced recycling facilities in the world, with the capacity to recycle approximately 90,000 tons of plastic waste per year using its pyrolysis technology.

Freepoint will occupy a 260,000-square foot building on 25 acres at 522 Milliken Drive, where Walker Manufacturing employed hundreds before it closed in 1994. The site is in Union Township, just north of the village of Hebron.

“It’s a really neat project involving a former warehouse of a major manufacturer here that’s been empty,” Licking County Commissioner Tim Bubb said. “Tons of plastics stay in domestic landfills now because a lot of that stuff was shipped to China, and they don’t do it anymore. If this represents a solution for the tons of plastics that we get in recycling that we can’t recycle, that’s a big deal.”



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