California takes on Big Plastic over recycling myths

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Very little plastic has ever been recycled.

, but promoted recycling as a viable solution to plastic waste anyway. “There is serious doubt that [recycling plastic] can ever be made viable on an economic basis,” the news outlets cite one industry insider saying in a 1974 speech.

Plastic’s popularity has skyrocketed over the past several decades. The world produces about 200 times more plastic today than it did in the 1950s. California’s investigation will probe “The state issued its first subpoena to ExxonMobil, one of the world’s biggest plastic producers.

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