Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. That has not stopped them from promoting it, according to a new report.

“The companies lied,” said Richard Wiles, president of fossil-fuel accountability advocacy group the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), which published the report. “It’s time to hold them accountable for the damage they’ve caused.”

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    8 months ago

    Not really. If you go deeper, you’ll find that everyone is immoral.

    If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it.

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      8 months ago

      Not really. If you go deeper, you’ll find that everyone is immoral.

      I mean, we’re straying far from the original conversation, so I’ll just leave it with agree to disagree, and move on.

      Take care.