The 223 companies that belong to and fund the American Chemistry Council and the Recycling Partnership — both of which signed the letter — include 60 publicly held companies with a combined revenue of $2.7 trillion and net profit of $210 billion.
A growing chorus agrees the expansion of the natural gas industry, which feeds plastics and petrochemical plants like Shell’s, is moving the U.S. in the wrong direction to prevent catastrophic impacts from climate change.
The result is a noxious chowder of sewage, industrial and agricultural runoff, and an ever-replenished flotilla of plastic trash, churning out from the river mouth toward the massive Mesoamerican reef, which has long supported rich biodiversity...
The vast majority of the 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic ever produced — 79 percent — has ended up in landfills.... We are well past the point where...heartfelt efforts...on the consumer end can solve the plastics problem.
US represents 4% of the world’s population but produces 12% of municipal solid waste, a stark contrast with China and India
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