Saudi Aramco, one of the world’s top corporate greenhouse gas emitters, supplies fossil-based plastics to global brands that sell them as “recycled.” Loopholes in industry-backed rules let these brands claim they’re hitting green targets while still relying on fossil fuels, and risk turning this deception into the new legal standard – misleading consumers and sabotaging climate action, our investigation finds.
  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wait till you find out about what happens to the VAST majority of “recycling”. I’ve worked plants where its burned. Back then they told us less than 15% of everything recycled ends up being actually reused, we burned most of it for electricity alongside the regular trash or it got dumped in land fills.