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HEADLINE: "Oil Industry Deceived Public on Plastics Recycling for More Than 50 Years"

Is anyone surprised by this? Of course they lied. That's what capitalists do. They ALWAYS put profits ahead of truthfulness, ahead of human rights, ahead of a healthy biosphere.

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The plastics industry has ‘sold’ plastic recycling to the American public to sell plastic, according to a report by the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), a nonprofit organization that advocates for legal action to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable.

Petrochemical companies and the plastics industry have known of the technical and economic limitations that make plastics unrecyclable for more than half a century, and “have failed to overcome them,” the report states. “Despite this knowledge, the plastics industry has continued to increase plastic production, while carrying out a well-coordinated campaign to deceive consumers, policymakers, and regulators about plastic recycling.”

“This evidence shows that many of the same fossil fuel companies that knew and lied for decades about how their products cause climate change have also known and lied to the public about plastic recycling,” Richard Wiles, CCI’s president, said in a press release. “The oil industry’s lies are at the heart of the two most catastrophic pollution crises in human history.”

Plastics manufacturers and industry groups, including some of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, have spent more than 50 years funding and pushing plastics recycling in order to stave off regulatory action – all while knowing that only a small fraction of plastic waste could ever be recycled.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.desmog.com/2024/02/15/recycling-plastic-center-for-climate-integrity-report-fraud/
REPORT SOURCE -- https://climateintegrity.org/plastics-fraud

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Greenwashing

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All along they've told us it would be so easy... just recycle some of your trash, or ride a bike once in a while, and everything will be fine.

There's no need to even *think* about system change. 🙄

#Pollution #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing #Environment #Climate #Degrowth

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In order to make themselves look good so they'll be allowed to continue with Business As Usual, huge corporations try to project a public image of being "climate aware" and "green" and on track for "net zero" — but it's just a phony pose.
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Some of the world’s most profitable – and most polluting corporations – have invested in carbon offset projects that have fundamental failings and are “probably junk”, suggesting industry claims about greenhouse gas reductions were likely overblown, according to new analysis.

Delta, ExxonMobil, Disney, and Nestlé are among the major corporations to have purchased millions of carbon credits from climate friendly projects that are “likely junk” or worthless when it comes to offsetting their greenhouse gas emissions, according to a classification system developed by Corporate Accountability, a non-profit, transnational corporate watchdog.

The fossil fuel industry is by far the largest investor in the world’s most popular CO₂ offsetting schemes. At least 43% of the CO₂ credits purchased by the oil and gas majors are for projects that have at least one fundamental flaw and are “probably junk,” according to the analysis.

The transport industry, which accounts for about a fifth of all global planet-warming emissions, has also relied heavily on carbon offsetting projects to meet climate goals. Just over 42% of the total credits purchased by airlines and 38% purchased by automakers are likely worthless at reducing emissions, the analysis found.

“These findings add to the mounting evidence that peels back the greenwashed facade of the voluntary carbon market and lays bare the ways it dangerously distracts from the real, lasting action the world’s largest corporations and polluters need to be taking,” said Rachel Rose Jackson, Corporate Accountability’s director of research.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/30/corporate-carbon-offsets-credits

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing

You don’t find out this “zero-emissions” train runs on hydrogen made from fossil fuels until paragraph 16. The article claims that’s fine because the CO₂ emitted is “captured.”

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-17/zero-emissions-passenger-train-debuts-in-san-bernardino?sfmc_id=6528232424b2ea18e68c734a&skey_id=d91997b319df1ba81b982bd4682bcb83bf84aa2c82ca11fa8669d404a257fd9b&utm_id=36539337&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLTR-Email-List-Boiling%20Point&utm_term=Newsletter%20-%20Boiling%20Point