Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic : NPR

Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic : NPR: An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.






For decades, the oil and plastics industry sold the public on an idea it knew wouldn't work — that the majority of plastic could and would be recycled — in order to sell more. In reality, less than 10% of plastic has ever been recycled: https://npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled…