Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. That has not stopped them from promoting it, according to a new report.
“The companies lied,” said Richard Wiles, president of fossil-fuel accountability advocacy group the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), which published the report. “It’s time to hold them accountable for the damage they’ve caused.”
While I’m happy this is always getting more attention so we can soon ban more unnecessary plastics such as bottles and jars, it also seems slightly convenient for corporations that worsening trade relations with China is correlating with the decline in plastics popularity.
Eh, I’m just overthinking it.
I mean we were shipping a large portion of our “recyclables” to China until they recently stopped taking them.
… Aaaand they have been dumping it into the ocean themselves anyway.
And to many developing countries. A growing number of them are refusing now.
That’s weird, did they suddenly give up on landfilling the seas to gain more territory?