After ExxonMobil, can you trust companies’ plastic recycling labels?
Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most recent year for which national data is available. The rest was burned in waste-to-energy plants or buried in landfills.
ExxonMobil Sued Over Misleading Consumers of Benefits of Recycling and Plastics Harm
Oil giant ExxonMobil, one of the world's largest plastics producers, has been sued by California for deceiving the public for decades by promising that all the plastic it produces would be recycled, but that has not been the case at all.
ExxonMobil alone produced 6 million tonnes of new single-use plastics in 2021, more than any of its competitors.
California is going after ExxonMobil Corp. in a both-barrels-blazing lawsuit, attempting to lay the problems with plastics ...
The California lawsuit also accuses the Houston area-based gas company of deception, as ExxonMobil claims recycling is a ...
Debates over whether sorting the recycling bin is worth the effort rage in kitchens everywhere. Now, California Attorney ...
Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.
Hide inaccessible results
Feedback