Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up – the Guardian
Five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment produced 132m tonnes of it, analysis finds…
L.A. County sues Pepsi and Coca-Cola over their role in ongoing plastic pollution crisis – the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles County has filed a lawsuit against the world’s largest beverage companies — Coca-Cola and PepsiCo — claiming that the soda and drink makers lied to the public about the effectiveness of plastic recycling and, as a result, left county residents and ecosystems choking in discarded plastic….
Many plastics in Bay Area blue bins end up in landfills. Here’s what is actually recycled – the San Francisco Chronicle
This week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued ExxonMobil for perpetuating what he called a decades-long fantasy: that the world’s plastics problem would just disappear with better recycling…
How the recycling symbol lost its meaning – Grist Magazine
Of the 147 companies with a package recyclability goal, only 15 percent were on track to meet it…