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.