Advanced recycling was always a greenwash term for we want to burn plastic with extra steps

As it was always unfeasible. The necessary energy input means it’s an economically losing proposition unless the government were to take the (absolutely unlikely) step of forcing all plastics, but especially virgin plastic production, to incorporate a heavy carbon tax and environmental impact tax in its pricing.

Shell has quietly backed away from each of their environmental pledge. They’ve done so at least since they moved headquarters to the UK, probably a lot earlier.