The Profit in Plastic: How Big Oil Built a Disposable World
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Beth Gardiner’s Plastic Inc. argues that oil and gas companies turned to plastics to cushion shrinking fuel profits, using marketing and lobbying to normalize disposability and recycling as a fix, while highlighting health and environmental harms and urging extended producer responsibility so manufacturers bear disposal costs.
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