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Los Angeles, United States – California began legal action Monday against oil giant ExxonMobil over a “decades-long campaign of deception” about plastics recycling that has worsened a global pollution crisis.
“Plastic contaminates our drinking water, strangles our wildlife and blights our landscapes,” Bonta told reporters. “Microplastics have been found in our lungs, maternal and placental tissue, breast milk and blood.“Since the 70s, ExxonMobil has known the truth about plastic pollution and recycling, and still publicly promotes the myth that plastic recycling is the answer. ExxonMobil knows that the vast majority of plastic products are not and likely cannot be recycled.
Last year the state sued ExxonMobil and other oil companies, alleging the firms knowingly misled consumers about the climate damage caused by the use of fossil fuels.California’s Department of Justice said Monday that ExxonMobil knew for decades that the vast majority of plastics its products created could not be recycled, either because the technology did not exist, or because it was not economically viable.
The lawsuit alleges that ExxonMobil has recently begun touting so-called “advanced recycling,” an umbrella term to describe heat or solvent-based technologies that can theoretically convert certain types of plastic waste into petrochemical feedstock, which can be used to make new plastic. “ExxonMobil’s biggest greenwashing campaign includes falsely touting ‘advanced recycling’ as a new technology that will solve the plastic pollution problem. False. It’s neither new nor advanced nor recycling,” he added.
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