How Big Oil and the Plastics Industry are Promoting a False Solution to the Plastic Waste Crisis
Big Oil and the plastics industry increasingly market “advanced recycling” as a solution to the plastic waste crisis. Yet the reality of chemical recycling is a far cry from the plastics industry’s promises.
“The Fraud of Advanced Recycling” shows how, in response to growing public and governmental pressure, Big Oil and the plastics industry are now deceptively marketing “advanced” recycling to the public, even as chemical engineering experts, industry consultants, trade associations, and plastics producers themselves quietly acknowledge its many flaws.
“[T]he concerns of industry critics are, in many cases, justified.”
