{"id":267146,"date":"2026-05-23T12:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/plastics-cannot-be-recycled-and-producers-know-this-report-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:36:53","slug":"plastics-cannot-be-recycled-and-producers-know-this-report-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/plastics-cannot-be-recycled-and-producers-know-this-report-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastics Cannot Be Recycled and Producers Know This, Report Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><span class=\"photoview__desc-text\">An ocean shore in South Africa littered with garbage, including plastic bottles and cans<\/span><img src=\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a5136dd9f106ee6dc94e363586c6ac4c.jpg\"  \/><span class=\"article__news-services--label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"article__news-services--list\">\n<li class=\"article__news-services--item social-service\" title=\"Telegram\" data-name=\"telegram\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"article__news-services--item social-service\" title=\"X\" data-name=\"twitter\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) released a report on Thursday which details how the plastics industry has evolved its marketing pitch in order to circumvent public backlash and potential regulation.According to a <u>report<\/u> by the CCI, despite their knowledge that recycling plastics is not technically or economically practical, petrochemical companies have continued to push \u201cfraudulent\u201d marketing and public outreach campaigns to convince consumers otherwise. Doing so, the report says, has stalled legislative and regulatory action that could have addressed plastic waste and pollution long ago.\u201cFossil fuel and other petrochemical companies have used the false promise of plastic recycling to exponentially increase virgin plastic production over the last six decades, creating and perpetuating the global plastic waste crisis and imposing significant costs on communities that are left to pay for the consequences,\u201d the CCI wrote.More than 99% of plastics are produced from fossil fuels, the report continues. Though there are thousands of different types of plastic, the majority of these cannot be \u201crecycled\u201d. And despite efforts to convince consumers otherwise, the recycling rate in the US for plastics in 2021 was estimated to be only 5% to 6%.After a 10-year review on plastics, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that there are only two types of plastics that can be turned into high quality objects: PET and HDPE, which are both commonly used to make plastic containers and bottles.Meanwhile, any other form of plastic is incinerated or sent to landfills, because even though some plastics are recyclable in theory, they are not actually recycled in practice due to purity requirements that are not practical\u2014for example, a green PET bottle cannot be recycled with a clear PET bottle. The quality of the plastic also degrades as it is recycled, which limits its use in its next life. And ultimately, recycled plastic materials will still end up in the landfill.<strong>The toxicity of the plastics also creates issues during the recycling process. The chemical additives in plastics include stabilizers, plasticizers, coatings, catalysts, and flame retardants as well as possible contamination by whatever that plastic contained such as cleaning solvents or pesticides. This means a majority of plastics cannot be recycled into food-grade packaging, or other products that interact with food.<\/strong>The cost of recycling plastics is also much higher than what it costs to produce new plastic.\u201cThe recycling process\u2014from collection to sorting to processing to transport\u2014requires more time, labor, and equipment to achieve a lower quality and less efficient output than the process of making virgin resin from fossil fuels,\u201d the report explains.The sales pitch which falsely claims that plastics can be recycled was first created and perpetuated by petrochemical companies, the report says.\u201c&#8230;the plastics industry has employed a familiar playbook for more than 50 years to escape accountability. Petrochemical companies\u2014independently and through industry trade associations and front groups\u2014have deceived consumers, policymakers, and regulators into believing that they could address the plastic waste crisis through a series of false solutions,\u201d the CCI wrote.Beginning in the 1950s, petrochemical companies realized that if their products could be thrown away, this would ensure a steady, growing demand for them. At the same time, instances of children suffocating on reusable plastics led the plastic industry to claim that the bags were meant to be thrown out, which shifted the blame from the company to parents. As a result, from 1960 to 1970 plastic packaging production jumped from 10% to 25%.But then in the early 1970s, plastics were identified as a key issue in the solid waste crisis. To confront public backlash and government regulation, plastic companies came up with two solutions: landfilling and incineration. By the mid-1980s it was clear that neither of these efforts would ensure the public that there was a credible solution to the plastic waste issue. It was then that the plastics industry turned to their current recycling campaign, which was successful in \u201cdeceiving\u201d the public about the viability of plastic recycling by the early 1990s, the report says.\u201cThey\u2019re viewing it as a communications problem, but there\u2019s another problem and they haven\u2019t devoted, in my opinion, the kind of energy and creativity and ingenuity to the real problem that they are devoting to the communications part,\u201d said Lewis Freeman, who had served as a Vice President at the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) from 1978 to 2001. The SPI was responsible for first launching its public relations campaign in the 1950s which led to the rise of disposable plastics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 30 some-odd years, there have been some slight improvements in the amount of plastics recycling, but for all the effort and the money they spent, they haven\u2019t moved the needle hardly at all. If they used the same measure of success and failure they do in running the rest of their business, they\u2019d be out of business,&#34; Freeman added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CCI, around 2015 the attention to microplastics and an increasing visibility of ocean plastics and their impact on wildlife increased and led to public outrage. In response, plastic companies have tried to resell and rebrand failed technology they have used in the past as \u201cnew\u201d in their campaign surrounding plastic recycling.\u201cCompanies like ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron Phillips, and Dow\u2014independently and through their industry trade associations\u2014have colluded to deceive the public for half a century, despite extensive evidence that recycling is not a viable solution to the plastic waste problem,\u201d the CCI wrote. \u201cFossil fuel and other petrochemical companies should now be held accountable for their deliberate campaign of deception and the resulting harms, much like tobacco and opioid companies that employed a similar playbook,&#8221; they added.The American Chemistry Council\u2019s Plastics Division and its member companies defended themselves against the report in a statement on Thursday.\u201cUnfortunately, this flawed report cites outdated, decades-old technologies, and works against our goals to be more sustainable by mischaracterizing the industry and the state of today\u2019s recycling technologies,\u201d said America\u2019s Plastic Makers President <u>Ross Eisenberg<\/u>. \u201cThis undermines the essential benefits of plastics and the important work underway to improve the way plastics are used and reused to meet society\u2019s needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20240217\/plastics-cannot-be-recycled-and-producers-know-this-report-claims-1116836370.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ocean shore in South Africa littered with garbage, including plastic bottles and cans The Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) released a report on Thursday which details how the plastics industry has evolved its marketing pitch in order to circumvent public backlash and potential regulation.According to a report by the CCI, despite their knowledge that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[1298],"tags":[3820,2131,2230,14636,8275,3331,14637,4114],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Plastics Cannot Be Recycled and Producers Know This, Report Claims - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/plastics-cannot-be-recycled-and-producers-know-this-report-claims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Plastics Cannot Be Recycled and Producers Know This, Report Claims - World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An ocean shore in South Africa littered with garbage, including plastic bottles and cans The Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) released a report on Thursday which details how the plastics industry has evolved its marketing pitch in order to circumvent public backlash and potential regulation.According to a report by the CCI, despite their knowledge that &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/plastics-cannot-be-recycled-and-producers-know-this-report-claims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-23T09:36:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a5136dd9f106ee6dc94e363586c6ac4c-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1078\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/\",\"name\":\"World News\",\"description\":\"Breaking News &amp; 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