"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," Bonta said in a statement picked up by KGO. "ExxonMobil lied to further its record-breaking profits at the expense of our planet and possibly jeopardizing our health."
Bonta said this in a lawsuit against ExxonMobile for falsely claiming that non-recyclable plastics were recyclable, according to Reuters. And he alleges that ExxonMobile has knowingly been lying about this for years.
America's largest oil and gas company ExxonMobile also happens to be the world's largest producer of the resins that make up single-use plastics. Yet many things we throw in the recycling cannot actually be recycled, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Monday that less than 5% of the plastic from American recycling bins ever gets recycled into another product.
We're suing ExxonMobil for a decades-long campaign of deception that perpetuated the plastic waste and pollution crisis. ExxonMobil peddled #RecyclingLies to further its record-breaking profits at the expense of our planet.
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