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Why California is suing ExxonMobil for ‘perpetuating the lie’ of plastic recycling

“It’s a difficult confrontation of a truth.”

The Golden State filed suit against the oil giant this week, alleging that it has misled consumers for years by marketing recycling as a way to prevent plastic pollution. Right now, the harm to California from ExxonMobil’s lies and deception and the myth of recycling are a billion dollars a year in taxpayer-funded cleanup and damage in terms of the plastic pollution crisis that we’re facing. I used to live in Long Beach, California, where there’s a big Southeast Asian community and also a lot of air pollution from all the vessel and truck traffic surrounding the port in that area.

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