The California attorney general’s lawsuit, which cites ProPublica reporting, alleges that products made with Exxon’s process contain only a small fraction of the recycled plastic that they claim to have.
What bothers me is some of my friends heard about plastic recycling being fake and immediately assume all recycling is fake. So now they don’t even try to recycle normal cardboards, papers, and metals because “recycling is a myth”.
Honestly, they’re not wrong. It’s reduce, reuse, recycle in that order for a reason. Excess packaging, regardless of material, is a problem. In a lot of places, even though you might separate your recyclables, they end up in the landfill anyway because nobody buys bales of recyclables when new material is cheaper and higher quality.
The best way to address waste like this is to place an additional tax on new material, and subsidize recycling.
What bothers me is some of my friends heard about plastic recycling being fake and immediately assume all recycling is fake. So now they don’t even try to recycle normal cardboards, papers, and metals because “recycling is a myth”.
Honestly, they’re not wrong. It’s reduce, reuse, recycle in that order for a reason. Excess packaging, regardless of material, is a problem. In a lot of places, even though you might separate your recyclables, they end up in the landfill anyway because nobody buys bales of recyclables when new material is cheaper and higher quality.
The best way to address waste like this is to place an additional tax on new material, and subsidize recycling.
That’s what happens when people get lied to, they stop believing everything, not just the lies.
Lying to the public does insane damage.