Attorney General Bonta began by issuing a subpoena to ExxonMobil to determine whether the fossil fuel giant has lied to the public about both the negative effects of plastics and also the efficacy of plastics recycling. Last week, the California Attorney General launched an investigation into the role the petrochemical and fossil fuel industries have played regarding plastic pollution. Elected officials and the public need this data in order to make informed decisions about the plastic pollution crisis we’re all facing,” said Enck. EPA to publicly release these important numbers as soon as possible. plastics recycling rate of 5 to 6% for 2021.
exports, and the waste industry to document a U.S. To fill this gap, The Last Beach Clean Up and Beyond Plastics examined data from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, the latest U.S. We face an escalating set of intertwined plastic pollution and climate change crises making access to these updated recycling rates critical. However, the EPA has not released updated recycling rates since November of 2020 when it published the rates for 2018. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its updated yearly data on recycling rates on November 15th, National Recycling Day. The plastic recycling process itself is wasteful, with 30% of collected PET bottle plastic material disposed in the recycling process.
The truth is that less than 6% of plastic waste is recycled and the other 94% is disposed of in landfills, burned in incinerators, or ends up polluting our ocean, waterways, and landscapes after being used just once, often for mere minutes. Plastics and products companies co-opted the success of other material recycling and America’s desire to recycle to create the myth that plastic is recyclable,” said Jan Dell, Independent Engineer and Founder of The Last Beach Cleanup. “There is no circular economy of plastics. It is plastic recycling that has always failed as it has never reached 10% even when millions of tons of plastic waste per year were counted as recycled when exported to China. High recycling rates of post-consumer paper, cardboard, and metals proves that recycling works to reclaim valuable natural material resources. The failure of plastic recycling is in contrast to paper which is recycled at 66% (2020 figure per American Forest and Products Association). Instead, we need consumer brand companies and governments to adopt policies that reduce the production, usage, and disposal of plastics,” said Judith Enck, President of Beyond Plastics and former U.S. It does not work, it never will work, and no amount of false advertising will change that. “The plastics industry must stop lying to the public about plastics recycling.
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The full report is available here to view or download (PDF) at: The groups also revealed that while plastics recycling is on the decline, the per capita generation of plastic waste has increased by 263% since 1980. Plastics Recycling Rate,” which documented a recycling rate of 5 to 6% for post-consumer plastic waste in the U.S. The Last Beach Clean Up and Beyond Plastics released a new report “The Real Truth About the U.S. Jan Dell, 94, Enck, 51, the heels of California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s Apannouncement of a major investigation of the recycling claims made by the petrochemical and fossil fuel industries, plastics policy and engineering experts are out with new numbers that document the low rate of plastics recycling in the United States.
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