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WASHINGTON – California’s attorney general announced Thursday that it has issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil for information about its role in creating the global plastic waste crisis.
The summons is part of a broader investigation led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta into the role of the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries in “causing and accelerating the global plastic pollution crisis.”
“For more than half a century, the plastics industry has engaged in an aggressive campaign to deceive the public, perpetuating a myth that recycling can solve the plastics crisis. The truth is: the vast majority of plastics are recycled. cannot be recycled,” Bonta said in a statement.
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The investigation will be similar to the role several state attorney generals have played in acknowledging and exacerbating climate change that fossil fuel companies have focused on what the industry knew decades ago and how companies managed their Misleading the public about the role.
In this investigation, the attorney general will focus on a “half-century campaign of deception and damage to the state of California” by companies producing plastics, a petroleum-based product, and how they dispel the “myths surrounding recycling”. Will keep Exxon is the first company to receive a subpoena, but officials said they would target other companies in the industry as well.
An Exxon spokesperson was not immediately available to comment.
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According to a landmark study in Science Advances, more than 90% of plastic waste worldwide ends up in landfills or is incinerated. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the US recycling rate has never exceeded 9%.
Bonta said the petrochemical industry has been aware for decades that large-scale recycling was not possible, even as plastic production skyrocketed and state, local and national efforts to issue plastic bans and other measures Pushed back against efforts.
The industry has promoted “advanced recycling” – a method of burning plastic to convert it into fuel or other products – as a solution to the plastic waste crisis but a Reuters investigation https://www.reuters.com/article /environment-plastic -oil-recycling-idINL8N2P46F0 The major projects showed little or no success. (Reporting by Valerie Volcovici Editing by Chris Reese)
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