Here’s a 30-second video that the plastics industry doesn’t want you to see.
Plastics lobbyists are trying to confuse Congress, EPA, and regular people like you and me by promoting something called “advanced recycling” or “chemical recycling.” Want to see for yourself what they’re actually talking about?
That’s right: it’s just plain old burning plastic and calling it recycling. They want to incinerate their way out of our plastics problem and are dressing it up by calling it recycling.
But burning mountains of plastic doesn’t actually recycle it. Rather, the plastic trash gets turned into hazardous wastes, heavily contaminated oils, and toxic air pollution.
Even worse, if the plastics industry gets its way in reclassifying plastics incineration as “recycling,” then the Clean Air Act protections will no longer apply. Facilities will no longer have to control their emissions of particulates, dioxins, lead, mercury, cadmium, and other dangerous air pollution. It will just spew into the air and right into our children’s lungs.
We can’t burn our way out of our plastics problem. And we can’t let plastics lobbyists fool Congress into thinking this is recycling. It’s not.
Watch our video and share on social media. And take action by contacting Congress today.
TELL CONGRESS: PROTECT OUR FAMILIES FROM PLASTIC INCINERATION POLLUTION