"For decades, ExxonMobil has been deceiving the public to convince us that plastic recycling could solve the plastic waste and pollution crisis when they clearly knew this wasn't possible," California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a press release.
Plastic is quite difficult to reuse, which is why very little of it is ever recycled. Promoting recycling as a cure-all for plastic waste can actually lead to more of it becoming trash, experts warn.
ExxonMobil is the world's leading producer of single-use plastics that become waste, according to the state attorney general's office. To encourage people to buy products made with single-use plastics, the suit alleges, ExxonMobil 'deceived Californians for almost half a century by promising that recycling could and would solve the ever-growing plastic waste crisis.'
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