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Big Oil's Big Deception: That Plastics Are Recyclable
09 Mar 2024 | Abstracted from The Hill
"...according to one study, the average person now ingests as much as a credit card's worth of plastic (5 grams) every week.
"For more than 40 years, they knew that plastic recycling is not technically or economically feasible at scale...Twenty petrochemical companies generate more than half of all the world's single-use plastics. They include major oil and gas companies such as ExxonMobil, the world's leading producer of single-use plastic
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