To solve the plastics crisis, we need to calm down about plastics
Efficiency gains, lifestyle changes and tough regulations are needed to address plastic waste.
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Efficiency gains, lifestyle changes and tough regulations are needed to address plastic waste.
'THE Fraud of Plastic Recycling: How Big Oil and the Plastics Industry Deceived the Public for Decades and Caused the Plastic Waste Crisis' is a report that details how the oil and plastics industries in the US deliberately fooled the US public about the viability of plastic recycling. As the title of the report hints, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Climate Integrity does not mince words in condemning the oil and plastics industries for the massive, decadeslong deceit and the harm that it has produced: 'If not for the Big Oil and the plastic industry's lies and deception, [US] municipal...
The US-based Center for Climate Integrity found the majority of plastics cannot and never will be recycled.
Chicago became part of the increasing number of US cities and states taking legal action against fossil fuel companies for supposedly misleading the public about the climate crisis.
The City of Chicago is suing Big Oil for allegedly causing deadly weather events in the city.