Resynergi, the innovative plastics-recycling company in Rohnert Park, announced this week its intentions to move operations out of state. Resynergi has been vying for city permission to conduct a new process for converting plastics to pyrolysis oil at its site at SOMO Village, a mixed-use campus shared by a school, an events center and various other businesses along a residential tract in the southeast part of the city.
The “microwave assisted pyrolysis” process uses high temperatures in an oxygen-free environment to break down plastics—a process that has raised alarms among some nearby residents and other SOMO Village businesses such as Credo High School, which contend a manufacturing plant is out of place in the neighborhood.
The company didn’t specify where its new location would be, but described seeking a better “community fit” in an industrially zoned area with the proper infrastructure for advanced plastics recycling. Resynergy also cited a friendlier regulatory environment and tax incentives as further reasons for moving out of state…