Right now, the plastics industry is trying to rebrand “plastics incineration” as so-called “advanced recycling.” Here’s the problem: burning plastic doesn’t make it just go away. It turns our plastic pollution problem into an air pollution problem.
¿Reciclaje avanzado o simplemente quemar plástico?
La industria del plástico está tratando cambiar el nombre de la incineración de plástico al “reciclaje avanzado”. Pero esta publicidad engañosa no cambia lo que es: la quema de plásticos.
¡Prender fuego al plástico NO es reciclar!
En este momento, la industria del plástico está tratando de cambiar el nombre de “incineración de plásticos” al llamado “reciclaje avanzado”. Aquí está el problema: quemar plástico no hace que desaparezca simplemente. Convierte nuestro problema de contaminación plástica en un problema de …
The Truth Behind the Plastics Industry’s Greenwashing
Burning plastics is not recycling. But the plastics industry is trying to convince us that it is because it wants to operate plastics incinerators without pollution controls. Communities across the country aren’t falling for it—and they’re fighting back. Residents of Follansbee (WV), …
Advanced Recycling or Just Burning Plastic?
The plastics industry is trying to give plastic incineration a makeover by calling it “advanced recycling.” But greenwashing the name doesn’t change what it is: burning plastic. When plastic is burned, it releases huge amounts of toxic chemicals that pollute our air …
Burning plastics is NOT recycling
But the plastics industry is trying to convince us that it is because it wants to operate plastics incinerators without pollution controls. Communities across the country aren’t falling for it—and they’re fighting back. Residents of Follansbee (WV), Youngstown (OH), Columbia (MD), Eloy …
Moms Plastics Summit on NBC4 Washington
Adam Met on NBC 10 Philadelphia
Dr. Shanna Swan on NBC 6
Tell Congress: Burning Plastic Is Not a Solution to the Plastics Crisis
“Advanced recycling,” a.k.a. burning plastic, is not a solution to the plastic pollution crisis. It is dangerous. Any legislation before Congress promoting “advanced recycling” would mean the proliferation of plastics-burning facilities across the country—and it would exempt these incinerators from air pollution …
The Plastics Crisis
Plastics contain thousands of toxic chemicals — like BPA, PFAS, phthalates, flame retardants, and heavy metals. Those chemicals move out of plastics and into our air, our bodies, our soil, and our food. Making plastic releases air pollution. We have a plastics crisis. And a health crisis.
Testimony: Sam Schmitz, Supporting CB11-2025 & Encouraging Howard County Council to Put People over Profits, February 19, 2025
By: Sam Schmitz, Project Manager, DC Events and Policy, Moms Clean Air Force Date: February 19, 2025 About: Supporting CB11-2025 & Encouraging Howard County Council to Put People over Profits To: Howard County Council Thank you for the opportunity to testify. My …