#ExxonMobil Accused of “Deceptively” Promoting Chemical #Recycling as a Solution for the #Plastics Crisis
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The #California attorney general’s lawsuit, which cites ProPublica reporting, alleges that products made with Exxon’s process contain only a small fraction of the recycled #plastic that they claim to have.
https://www.propublica.org/article/exxonmobil-plastics-recycling-pyrolysis-lawsuit-california
#News #Law #Exxon #Oil #Environment #FossilFuels #Sustainability #Accountability
The lawsuit cited our story on the first federal action taken against a controversial accounting method the plastics industry uses to inflate the recycled content it advertises in products: https://propub.li/4dmEMVS
#News #Government #Plastic #Environment #Oil #Regulation #Recycling #EPA
In June, we examined #ExxonMobil’s claim that it had transformed discarded #plastic into new fruit cups through an “advanced” chemical #recycling technology. We broke down the math to show just how little recycled content winds up in products made this way.
This fruit cup example was also cited by the lawsuit.
https://propub.li/4eYp8RRI had to stop reading this article part of the way through because a huge image overlaid the text and prevented me from even seeing the text. Such “modern” Web design is not conducive to transmitting information.
Thanks, y’all. The sooner we recognize their plan as bull💩, the sooner we can refocus our efforts on methods that actually work. Please publish as much as you can on this. There’s a lot of people resting easy on “plans for recycling” that are little more than trustwashing.🌸
