Plastic industry bookkeeping plans hide chemical recycling harms, critics say

Mongabay
Oct 16, 2026, 11:54 am104 ptsTrending
Plastic pollution has rapidly escalated into a global environmental crisis that threatens ecosystem function and human health at an epic scale. Solutions are urgently needed, but while scientists, conservationists and more than 75 nations have called for binding limits on fossil fuel-driven plastic production,…

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