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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/five-firms-in-plastic-pollution-alliance-made-1000-times-more-waste-than-they-saved-analysis-shows>
"Oil and chemical companies who created a high-profile alliance to end plastic
pollution have produced 1,000 times more new plastic in five years than the
waste they diverted from the environment, according to new data obtained by
Greenpeace.
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) was set up in 2019 by a group of
companies which include ExxonMobil, Dow, Shell, TotalEnergies and
ChevronPhillips, some of the world’s biggest producers of plastic. They
promised to divert 15m tonnes of plastic waste from the environment in five
years to the end of 2023, by improving collection and recycling, and creating a
circular economy.
Documents from a PR company that were obtained by Greenpeace’s Unearthed team
and shared with the
Guardian suggest a key aim of the AEPW was to “change the
conversation” away from “simplistic bans of plastic” that were being proposed
in 2019 amid an outcry over the scale of plastic pollution leaching into rivers
and harming public health.
Early last year the alliance target of clearing 15m tonnes of waste plastic was
quietly scrapped as “just too ambitious”."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
