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.”
I mean we were shipping a large portion of our “recyclables” to China until they recently stopped taking them.
And to many developing countries. A growing number of them are refusing now.
… Aaaand they have been dumping it into the ocean themselves anyway.