On Thursday, the California Attorney General began a full investigation into the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries in its alleged role. The spread of global plastic pollution ExxonMobil has called and promised that polluters will be responsible for any crime.
Attorney General Rob Bonta said the investigation will focus on what he calls a “half-century-old campaign of deception” and it targets companies that “triggered and exacerbated the global plastic pollution crisis”. Plastic pollution has long been an environmental problem, with conservatives denying the spread of plastic around the world. The farthest corner of the Arctic enters the Geology of the planet And all in the body Shells of seabirds Lungs of man.
“Enough is enough,” Bonta said in a statement Thursday. “For more than half a century, the plastics industry has been involved in an aggressive campaign to deceive the public, reinforcing the myth that recycling can solve the plastics crisis. The truth is: most plastics are cannot be recycled.
#Baliin: We launch an investigation into its role in the global development leading plastics industry # Plastic pollution Crisis and public deception.
Plastic pollution enters our waters, destroying our environment and ruining our landscapes.
ᲡEnough is enough.
– Rob Bonta (@AGrobBonta) April 28, 2022
For more than 50 years, the plastics industry has been engaged in an aggressive campaign to deceive the public that recycling could solve the plastics crisis.
The fact is that most plastics cannot be recycled.
We will learn more about this deceptive campaign. pic.twitter.com/n2bD6uOFQb
– Rob Bonta (@AGrobBonta) April 28, 2022
Exxon was the first company to receive the call, but Reuters said other companies are likely to receive calls from Bonta’s office. The Attorney General said at a news conference that he believes Exxon is “a major source of global plastic pollution” and has been using deceptive practices for decades. Reported.
Despite the widespread belief that a lot of plastic is recycled, minus 9% of plastic. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it was recycled in the United States in 2018. The remaining 91% goes to landfills, incinerators or the environment.
AN NPR 2020 and PBS report the lead found out that the plastics industry knew that recycled products would be banned as “expensive” and “non -manufactured” in the 1970s. But the industry spends millions of dollars each year to increase the use of plastics and encourage consumers to recycle.
Bonta said his office aims at industry efforts to reduce public awareness of the “harmful effects of these products” and relies on “historical and ongoing attempts to deceive the public.”
“The plastics industry, made up of major fossil fuel and petrochemical companies, has launched an aggressive and deceptive advertising and marketing campaign to convince the public that they can recycle their plastic waste,” he said on Thursday. “But executives of major fossil fuel companies know the truth.”
Source: Huffpost
