Holy fuck this is bad. “One in four people will develop cancer” is not the best way to sell an alternative fuel.
“EPA faces questions over plastic-based fuel with huge cancer risk”
@feloneouscat: They're desperate a) for recycling because they've been finding out for many years that not few recycling companies don't recycle but just toss everything into landfills and b) to find alternative fuels.
There were concerns decades ago over high fructose corn syrup and then later over livestock steroids and hormones, but... 🤷♂️
Actually, high fructose corn syrup was pushed for consumers. Consumers demanded fructose, not sucrose. Industry responded. The history of this is very long and, sadly, is the result of the American consumer wanting “healthy” sugar.
@feloneouscat: I'd forgotten that the "health food craze" was also in full swing. I grew up rural, from 1970 to 1986, and so a lot of the fads I only ever saw on television, movies or in magazines, books, and non-local newspapers.
@thedisasterautist I have a lot of “stuff” in my head, a little which is actually useful (LOL).
Like the fact that the composer of the music to Star Wars and Lost in Space are the same John Williams.
@feloneouscat: Yep. He was credited as "Johnny Williams" in the credits for "Lost in Space".