How to make plastic 100% recycled when it is only 10% recycled.
If this were a bank, you would go to prison.
“A third of them, 10 pounds, could be labeled 100% recycled — shifting the value of the full batch onto them — so long as the remaining 20 pounds aren’t labeled as recycled at all.”
How companies get rich pretending to sell 100% recycled plastic. That isn’t 100% recycled at all.
https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis
@feloneouscat: I wish this was new news, but it isn't. It surfaces every few years. New journalists and/or orgs and/or academics study and delve, and they find out the same thing:
Most plastic recycling is a con, and the "recyclers" are making billions, mostly in government contracts and tax credits.