NC S725

Exempts advanced recycling facilities from solid waste permitting requirements by defining advanced recycling and related materials as exempt from solid waste management regulations.

Defines "advanced recycling" as a manufacturing process converting post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks into raw materials, feedstocks, chemicals, and recycled products through pyrolysis, gasification, depolymerization, catalytic cracking, reforming, solvolysis, or chemolysis processes.

Excludes advanced recycling facilities from the definition of "solid waste management facility" and specifies that advanced recycling does not include incineration of plastics or waste-to-energy processes.

Expands definition of "recovered material" to include post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks processed at or held at advanced recycling facilities prior to processing.

Establishes detailed definitions for post-use polymers, recovered feedstocks, and specific advanced recycling processes (pyrolysis, gasification, depolymerization, solvolysis) to clarify regulatory scope.