Earth: Wildlife In Catastrophic Decline Due To Human Destruction

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https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

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We found that the industry sold the public on an idea it knew wouldn't
work -- that the majority of plastic could be, and would be,
recycled... "There is serious doubt that [recycling plastic] can ever
be made viable on an economic basis," one industry insider wrote in a
1974 speech. Yet the industry spent millions telling people to
recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling
recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true. "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 Society
of the Plastics Industry, known today as the Plastics Industry
Association and one of the industry's most powerful trade groups in
Washington. Less than 10 percent of plastic has ever been recycled.
But the public has known little about it.
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