I am one of those 'tree huggers' that recycles and have been for decades..but in recent years with so many reports about the useless trend of recycling has got me wondering if I should continue to do so. There are a bunch of disturbing reports about plastic waste... A report released Thursday estimates that countries…
THE Fraud of Plastic Recycling: How Big Oil and the Plastics Industry Deceived the Public for Decades and Caused the Plastic Waste Crisis is a report that details how the oil and plastics industries in the US deliberately fooled the US public about the viability of plastic recycling. As the title of the report hints, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Climate Integrity does not mince words in condemning the oil and plastics industries for the massive, decadeslong deceit and the harm that it has produced: If not for the Big Oil and the plastic industry s lies and deception, [US] municipalities and states would not have invested in plastic recycling programs and facilities, many of which have been shut down due to foreseeable economic losses. The industry not only misled municipal and state agencies to believe that plastic recycling was a viable solution to plastic waste but also discouraged them from pursuing other, more sustainable waste management strategies (e.g., waste reducti
While there are thankfully an increasing number of serious books proposing what can be done to actually meet the scale of the crisis we face (including Seth Klein’s A Good War and Max Ajl’s A People’s Green New Deal), it is still worth giving a nod to the essential works that expose the forces holding us back from climate action in Canada especially because these works get little attention from mainstream media.
A recent opinion poll rocked the world of the Big Oil lobbyists in their proverbial thousand-dollar suits and alligator shoes. The Pew Research Center found
Do you get the feeling digital id is being hyped by every government, corporation, financial institution and globalist-connected NGO as the way of the future? Well, youre right! But why is this being pushed so hard right now. Dont miss this important edition of The Corbett Report podcast where Ja.