The Plastics Industry’s Wish List for a Second Trump Administration

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Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed last month is a wish list, not of tough new mandates to get a handle on the world’s plastic’s crisis, but of regulatory rollbacks and government assistance that would boost the plastics industry.

https://www.propublica.org/article/plastics-industry-wish-list-second-trump-administration?

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Plastic promises

Coca-Cola, one of the world’s top producers of plastic pollutants, is scaling back its packaging sustainability goals. Environmental activists are outraged at the beverage giant, which also reduced its recycling benchmark.