How Big Oil Misled the Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
September 11, 2020
Recycled Plastic is not valuable and never has been. Recycling is, in the end, a business, and plastics don't make as much money as it costs to process them. Big Oil have known this from the beginning, and have spent millions of dollars annually telling the public the opposite, selling the public an idea they knew wouldn't work because selling recycling sold plastic. "If the public thinks that recycling is working, then they are not going to be as concerned about the environment."
- Larry Thomas, former president of the Plastics Industry Association