The Fraud of Plastic Recycling

How Big Oil and the plastics industry deceived the public for decades and caused the plastic waste crisis

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Underpinning the plastic waste crisis is a campaign of fraud and deception that fossil fuel and other petrochemical companies have created and perpetuated for decades.

Through new and existing research, “The Fraud of Plastic Recycling” shows how Big Oil and the plastics industry have deceptively promoted recycling as a solution to plastic waste management for more than 50 years, despite their long-standing knowledge that plastic recycling is not technically or economically viable at scale.

Now it’s time for accountability.

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Polluters knew decades ago that plastic recycling was “virtually hopeless.”

Explore the evidence that Big Oil and the plastics industry knew they were deceiving the public about plastic recycling, including never-before-seen documents published here for the first time.

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“Petrochemical companies and the plastics industry should be held liable for their coordinated campaign of deception and the resulting harms that communities are now facing.”