Freepoint Eco-Systems notified the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency that it would suspend “advanced recycling” operations at its facility in Licking County, Ohio. This announcement came as the Ohio EPA had already issued five Notices of Violation and was actively pursuing enforcement orders to address ongoing and unresolved violations at the facility.
For 1.5 years, the Freepoint plastics incinerator has been smothering Hebron, Ohio and surrounding communities with hazardous air pollution. Claiming to recycle plastic, the facility has been burning massive amounts of plastic trash, turning it into hazardous air pollution and hazardous wastes, including a highly contaminated low-grade oily substance called pyrolysis oil.
Freepoint’s air permit allowed each of its two pyrolysis incinerators to combust up to 132 tons of plastic waste per day, which is a total of 528,000 pounds of plastic burned each day at the facility. This includes high density polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, low density polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene.
On April 28, the Ohio EPA formally notified Freepoint that their Hebron plastic pyrolysis facility does not actually qualify as a recycling unit because the facility has been violating the terms of its permit for the past three quarters. The Ohio EPA wrote,
Notice of the shutdown came roughly a month after the facility’s fifth Notice of Violation, in which the Ohio EPA cited Freepoint Eco-Systems for failing to produce enough pyrolysis oil to qualify for its recycling exemption for three consecutive quarters.
Published June 2026
