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The Real Truth About the U.S. Plastics Recycling Rate

The Real Truth About the U.S. Plastics Recycling Rate documents a recycling rate of 5-6% for post-consumer plastic waste in the U.S. for 2021 and reveals that while plastics recycling is on the decline, the per capita generation of plastic waste has increased by 263% since 1980.

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Recycling Lies: “Chemical Recycling” Of Plastic Is Just Greenwashing Incineration | NRDC Issue Brief

As public concern grows about mountains of plastic trash, the plastics industry is promoting technologies that it misleadingly calls “chemical recycling” (also known as advanced recycling, molecular recycling, and chemical conversion) and touts as a solution to the plastic crisis. But it is a false solution.

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Reckoning With the U.S. Role In Global Ocean Plastic

Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste calls for a national strategy by the end of 2022 to reduce the nation's contribution to global ocean plastic waste at every step - from production to its entry into the environment - including by substantially reducing U.S. solid waste generation.

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Global Brand Audit Report

“BRANDED Volume III: Demanding Corporate Accountability for Plastic Pollution” is out, revealing the Top 10 Corporate Plastic Polluters of 2020.