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Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · 11/2022 · Tröts: 3.866 · Folger: 9.283
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For decades, companies that make and sell plastic packaging and plastic products have lied about recycling, blamed consumers for waste, and buried research about the dangers of plastic pollution.
Now, finally, they face the possibility of major lawsuits holding them responsible for all the damage they have done. Except they won't go down without a fight.
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From 1950 to 2000, global plastic production soared from 2 million tons to 234 million tons annually. And over the next 20 years, production more than doubled to 460 million tons in 2019. But plastics producers knew in the 1950s that their products don’t break down, and in 1969, documents show, industry interests discussed plastics accumulating in the environment but kept marketing them.
In the 1980s, the industry “misled the public” by lobbying states to adopt a plastic-packaging numbering system that resembled the “chasing arrows” recycling symbol and therefore appeared to indicate recyclability.
Taxpayers foot the bill to clean plastic pollution from streets and waterways, and research shows people could ingest the equivalent of one credit card’s worth of plastic per week.
“We’re in the midst of a population-scale human experiment on the impacts of multigenerational toxic exposures,” said Carroll Muffett, president of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). “Plastics are at the epicenter of that.”
Research from CIEL details the widespread burdens that plastic pollution places on US cities and states, and argues that plastic producers may be breaking public-nuisance, product-liability, and consumer-protection laws.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/26/plastics-companies-blocking-mitigation-efforts
#Health #Science #Environment #Pollution
PHOTO: Piles of plastic trash covering a beach stretch for miles into the distance.
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