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The Alliance to End Plastic Waste, led by ExxonMobil, Dow, Shell, TotalEnergies, and ChevronPhillips, is under criticism for producing 132 million tonnes of plastic in five years—1,000 times more than the 118,500 tonnes it cleaned up.

Established in 2019 to combat plastic pollution, the alliance quietly abandoned its ambitious cleanup target.

Critics, including Greenpeace, accuse AEPW of greenwashing and lobbying against production caps in a proposed global treaty on plastic pollution.

Environmentalists argue that reducing virgin plastic production is the only sustainable solution.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Isn't that an org run by plastic companies to ensure there's more virgin plastics used?

The solution to this is to use standardized glass bottles and establish deposit programs

[–] Brickhead92 22 points 16 hours ago

What if, instead of cleaning up the mess we made... We don't?

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[–] De_Narm 19 points 16 hours ago

We'll all be long dead before anyone forces these companies to actually do something. As long as they can simply invest in some political sock puppets and only promise to do something, they won't do anything.

[–] snowboardbum 9 points 14 hours ago

Greenwashing bastards

[–] RestrictedAccount -1 points 16 hours ago

The media, proving that companies investing in efforts to begin cleaning up the mess, will only bring more bad press.