At the core of the plastic waste crisis lies a decades-long campaign of fraud and deception orchestrated by fossil fuel and petrochemical companies.
Drawing on extensive new and existing research, “The Fraud of Plastic Recycling” reveals how Big Oil and the plastics industry have misleadingly marketed recycling as a viable solution to plastic waste management for over 50 years, even though they have long been aware that large-scale plastic recycling is neither technically feasible nor economically sustainable.
It’s time to hold these entities accountable.
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