‘A sea of misinformation’: FTC to address industry greenwashing complaints

The oil industry asserts that all plastic is recyclable. Numerous investigations have found it largely is not, and the vast majority of US plastic that consumers thought would go to a recycling center to be reused is actually burned or buried. Troves of documents have shown oil and plastic industry leadership and executives have known that plastic recycling will almost never make financial sense because new plastic is so much cheaper to produce.

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