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 deceived the public with plastic recycling, lawsuit claims
“For decades, ExxonMobil has been deceiving the public to convince us that plastic recycling could solve the plastic waste and pollution crisis when they clearly knew this wasn’t possible,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a press release yesterday.
like, that they belong in the recycling bin, not the trash. Well now, California is suing ExxonMobil and saying that that is a lie and that the company has deceived the American public. So what are ...
Besides reducing litter and eye pollution, recycled plastic bags reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gases. A number of ...
The legislation would also establish a legal framework for technologies like chemical recycling and require EPA to establish ...
The Cool Down on MSN6d
Best Buy teams up with packaging giant to cut plastic waste: 'We're always looking for new ways to reduce our impact'In a move even more enticing than the satisfying pop of those tiny plastic bubbles, the initiative makes it simple for ...
The government will provide a one-time financial support for youth-led recycling startups for abandoned and discarded fishing ...
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