'The plastic recycling deception': Plastics industry accused of 'dumping' pollution problem

Cecilia Keating
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'The plastic recycling deception': Plastics industry accused of 'dumping' pollution problem

Planet Tracker warns industry push to promote recycling as primary solution to plastic waste could lead to weak outcome as governments negotiate Global Plastics Treaty

The global plastics industry has been accused of promoting a "false" narrative that recycling is the solution to plastic pollution, which passes the blame for the crisis on to consumers and shifts the...

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