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Why We Are Here => Economics & Investing => Topic started by: rcjordan on May 18, 2021, 02:22:03 PM

Title: Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic waste globally - BBC
Post by: rcjordan on May 18, 2021, 02:22:03 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57149741

ExxonMobil
Dow
Sinopec
Indorama Ventures
Saudi Aramco
PetroChina
LyondellBasell
Reliance Industries
Braskem
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Borealis
Lotte Chemical
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Far Eastern New Century
Formosa Plastics Corporation
China Energy Investment Group
PTT
China Resources.
Title: Re: Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic waste globally - BBC
Post by: ergophobe on May 18, 2021, 10:55:22 PM
I am not sure looking at it from the supply side alone is that helpful. You have to look at the demand side and, even more importantly, the lobbying and PR side.
Title: Re: Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic waste globally - BBC
Post by: Brad on May 19, 2021, 10:37:46 AM
> demand side

Probably have to go after both.  The fast food industry has had plenty of warning and they are the low hanging fruit, so start phasing out plastic straws, foam clam shells, foam cups etc. first.
Title: Re: Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic waste globally - BBC
Post by: ergophobe on May 19, 2021, 02:40:11 PM
That was sort of tongue in cheek. I do think you have to go after the demand side.

But what I was trying to say is that there is a third side: the lobbying and PR side, which has been behind a lot of the feel-good propaganda about recycling, which we now know was mostly a lie and they knew it was lie going back to the 1970s. It made people think that throwing plastic in the blue bin was like throwing aluminum in the blue bin, but it's not the same thing even remotely.
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