An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.
also: https://www.marxist.com/capitalism-s-recycling-lie.htm
Source: Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic : NPR
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