Plastics are derived from petrochemicals. Waste plastics often degrade into ubiquitous microparticles that find their ways into food chains. Microplastics have been linked to a variety of human health problems. 'Advanced' or Chemical Recycling refers to a collection of technologies, designed to break plastics down into their constituent molecules. The producers have long advocated this as a solution to the plastics waste crisis. The Centre for Climate Integrity maintains, however, that these producers have long known that Advanced Recycling is neither technically nor economically feasible tecnically (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/06/plastic-advanced-recycling-report). This seems 'par for the course' for rich, major polluting industries. Polluters often 'go into overdrive' extolling the virtues of 'solutions' to the problems they create, even when fully aware they won't work! If they were advertisers, they would be breaking the code. They should be severely punished financially for their duplicitous behaviour.
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