US EditionHardly any plastics can be truly recycled, and producers have known for decades: Report
- A new report reveals that big oil companies and the plastics industry have known for decades that recycling is not a viable solution to plastic waste management.
- The plastics industry misled the public about recycling, promoting it as a solution despite knowing it was not workable.
- The report exposes fraudulent marketing campaigns that allowed the single-use plastics industry to expand while avoiding waste and pollution regulation.
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Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment. Consumers sort their trash so plastic packaging can be repurposed, and local governments use taxpayer money to gather and process the material. Yet from the early days of recycling, plastic makers, including oil and gas companies, knew that it wasn't a viable solution to deal with increasing amoun…
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Hardly any plastics can be truly recycled, and producers have known for decades: Report
Plastics producers have promoted recycling their products as an environmental solution for decades despite firsthand knowledge that it was not feasible, according to a report published Thursday. More than 99 percent of plastics are produced using fossil fuels, and of these, the vast majority cannot be “recycled” in the sense of being processed and turned into entirely…
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