Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’
Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’
Five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment accused of producing 132m tonnes of it
Summary
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, led by ExxonMobil, Dow, Shell, TotalEnergies, and ChevronPhillips, is under criticism for producing 132 million tonnes of plastic in five years—1,000 times more than the 118,500 tonnes it cleaned up.
Established in 2019 to combat plastic pollution, the alliance quietly abandoned its ambitious cleanup target.
Critics, including Greenpeace, accuse AEPW of greenwashing and lobbying against production caps in a proposed global treaty on plastic pollution.
Environmentalists argue that reducing virgin plastic production is the only sustainable solution.
What if, instead of cleaning up the mess we made... We don't?
- C Suites
We'll all be long dead before anyone forces these companies to actually do something. As long as they can simply invest in some political sock puppets and only promise to do something, they won't do anything.
Greenwashing bastards
Isn't that an org run by plastic companies to ensure there's more virgin plastics used?
The solution to this is to use standardized glass bottles and establish deposit programs
The media, proving that companies investing in efforts to begin cleaning up the mess, will only bring more bad press.
Are these efforts to reduce plastic production in the room with us right now?
This article will see that there isn’t.