Greeley to consider incentives for plastic recycling operation

GREELEY — The Greeley City Council will hear, at a date uncertain, about a $1.3 million incentive agreement to lure a Rocky Mountain region plastics recycling company to Greeley.

Called “Project Energy,” the company would establish a pyrolysis plant to convert plastics into energy products, according to a memo from Benjamin Snow, economic health and housing director for the city.

Pyrolysis is the process of converting organic substances to base components using temperatures in excess of 500 degrees in the absence of oxygen. 

Included in the project would be a plastics sorting facility.

The pyrolysis facility would be adjacent to Andersen Sales and Salvage,…