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RFF Grantee, Center for Climate Integrity, Featured in The New York Times for its Plastics Report
Climate|October 16, 2024
Last month, California filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil, the world’s largest producer of single-use plastic polymers, for plastic recycling fraud. ExxonMobil orchestrated a 50-year deceptive campaign that falsely promoted recycling as a solution to plastic waste, driving increased consumption of single-use plastics and fueling the global plastic pollution crisis. The lawsuit cites evidence from a groundbreaking report released earlier this year by RFF grantee, the Center for Climate Integrity, which revealed that Big Oil and the plastics industry knew from the outset that recycling single-use plastics was neither physically nor financially feasible, yet pushed this narrative to expand their markets.
