It’s plastic-free July. Here’s a newsletter dedicated to plastic and why oil companies are banking on it still being needed.
What soft plastics you can recycle at Coles and Woolworths Have a look at Redcycle’s website https://www.redcycle.net.au/what-to-redcycle/
How plastics contribute to climate change
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/08/how-plastics-contribute-to-climate-change/
The insanity of plastic recycling
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/504091-the-insanity-of-plastic-recycling
Your plastic addiction is bankrolling Big Oil
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/03/your-plastic-addiction-is-bankrolling-big-oil/
Fossil fuel companies are counting on plastics to save them
https://grist.org/climate/fossil-fuel-companies-are-counting-on-plastics-to-save-them/
How big oil and big soda kept a global calamity secret for decades
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/plastic-problem-recycling-myth-big-oil-950957/
Plastic wars: industry spent millions selling recycling – to sell more plastic
A plateful of plastic: visualising the amount of microplastic we eat
https://graphics.reuters.com/ENVIRONMENT-PLASTIC/0100B4TF2MQ/index.html
The missing 99%: why can’t we find the vast majority of ocean plastic?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/31/ocean-plastic-we-cant-see
Oil companies pivot to plastics to stave off losses from fuel demand
https://www.dw.com/en/plastic-oil-petrochemicals-coronavirus/a-52834661
How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world
https://theintercept.com/2019/07/20/plastics-industry-plastic-recycling/
Will coronavirus be the death or salvation of Big Plastic?
https://time.com/5831005/coronavirus-plastic-industry/
Extended producer responsibility
https://plasticsmartcities.org/products/producer-responsibility-initiative#
How much crude oil does plastic production really consume?
Plastic bags and petroleum
https://1bagatatime.com/learn/plastic-bags-petroleum/
Break Free From Plastic position on chemical recycling
https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2020/06/22/bffp-position-on-chemical-recycling/
Reusables can be used safely: over 115 health experts fire back at the plastic industry
The Story of Plastic (trailer)