The Fraud of Plastic Recycling

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

by The Center for Climate Integrity: https://climateintegrity.org/plastics-fraud

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. |PDF|

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. |documents|

Like permanent wars, the contrived environmental waste worldwide is staggering. Not merely to dump unwanted waste that is expensive to process at home abroad among the poor nations, but it appears an excessive, ostentatious effort as well — to lower beauty worldwide, fostering uglier lower thoughts and a submissive sheeple, and to help legitimize the coming wars on petroleum producers — of which Russia, Iran, Libya and Venezuela are merely the first wave. It has led to the Climate Agenda of disinvestment in new energy exploration, “decarbonization” and withdrawal of petroleum from developed countries, as seen in Europe most vividly. All the justifications used are illogical and unscientific, as with the premise above of recycling.. No crisis is wasted, pun unintended. We observe the metrics of increased societal controls, depopulation and relentless work to control energy sources..